820 canonical forms + 578 route stages.
THE TIMELINE ATLAS
JOURNEY ATLAS ↗FORM / ROUTE / BOUND
1398 REVIEWED EVENTSLANGUAGE
IN TIME.
One cross-word chronology for every defensibly bounded form and journey stage—without converting a vague historical label into a fake year.
A reviewed graph bound, not a claim of an earliest human word.
Only stages with directly cited numeric bounds enter this atlas.
Labels remain visible in Journey Atlas, but not parsed into false years.
001398 MATCHING EVENTS
FILTER THE CHRONOLOGY
WHEN DID THE EVIDENCE LAND?
TWO CLOCKS.
NO FALSE PRECISION.
FORM CHRONOLOGY dates a canonical linguistic form or reconstruction in the lexical graph.
ROUTE CHRONOLOGY dates a geographic or transmission stage in a word’s journey.
They can share an era band, but they are never silently treated as the same kind of claim.
CROSS-WORD CHRONOLOGY / EARLIEST BOUND FIRST
THE EVIDENCE IN TIME
Antiquity30 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatia
*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan beside *hatiz-
Orel's Gothic, Old English, Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Norse, and Old High German set supports a shared verb family while leaving reconstruction detail open.
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*bōwan
Proto-Germanic
to dwell; live
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatizōn
*hatiz- noun family
The inherited noun family is reconstructed from attested Germanic comparanda. No archaeological point, single tribe, or attested Proto-Germanic denominative *hatizōn is asserted.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not a directly dated token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hazzōn
*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan beside *hatiz-
Comparative Germanic forms support a weak-verb family beside the hate noun base while exact formation, ablaut, and semantic direction remain analytical.
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*wardaz
Proto-Germanic
guard; guardian
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
fīunt
*fi(j)ēn- and lexicalized *fi(j)and-
Cross-branch evidence places the hate verb and enemy-agent formation before the separate written Germanic traditions.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*dīg-
Proto-Germanic
to knead or form
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatōn
*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan beside *hatiz-
Cross-Germanic daughter evidence supports the family while reconstruction notation and semantic priority remain unsettled.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*hlaibaz
Proto-Germanic
loaf of bread
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
heti
*hatiz- and competing inherited stem analyses
Cross-Germanic daughter evidence supports the family while the i-stem and es/os-stem descriptions remain visibly distinct.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hōti
competing *hwōtja- and *hatiz- parent analyses
Cross-source disagreement begins before the Old Saxon record: one source reconstructs a threat-related adjective, another classifies the form with hate.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken form or exact homeland.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*gumōn-
Proto-Germanic
man; human being
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
friend
*frī-
The like, love, or friendly base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence; no Proto-Germanic speaker, homeland point, or manuscript token is claimed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic participial-formation horizon
friend
*frijōnd-
The loving-one agent formation predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment and inflectional shape remain reconstructed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*daigaz
Proto-Germanic
dough
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic lexical horizon
Freund
*frī-
The love or favor base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence; no single homeland point or recorded token is claimed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic participial-formation horizon
Freund
*frijōnd-
The loving-agent noun predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment remains reconstructed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic lexical horizon
vriend
*frī-
The love or favor base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence and is not pinned to one location.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic participial-formation horizon
vriend
*frijōnd-
The loving-agent formation predates Old Dutch; no exact coinage event survives.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
frændi
*frī-
The like, love, or friendly base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence; no Proto-Germanic speaker, homeland point, or written occurrence is claimed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic participial-formation horizon
frændi
*frijōnd-
The loving-agent formation predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment and full paradigm remain reconstructed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
frēond
*frī-
The like, love, or friendly base is reconstructed from daughter-language evidence. No Proto-Germanic speaker, homeland point, or written occurrence is claimed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic participial-formation horizon
frēond
*frijōnd-
The loving-agent formation predates the daughter-language records, but its exact lexicalization moment and full paradigm remain reconstructed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*daigjōn-
Proto-Germanic
female baker or servant
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*daiga-
Proto-Germanic stem
dough; kneaded mass
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*kuninga-
Proto-Germanic
king; lineage-member title formation
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*kunja-
Proto-Germanic
lineage, family, kin, descent, or people
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*-inga- / *-unga-
Proto-Germanic
person associated with or belonging to a lineage
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*kundjaz
Proto-Germanic
origin, birth, family, race, or kind
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*kundiz
Proto-Germanic
natural, native, or fitting
UNBOUNDED IS
A REAL RESULT.
Stages without source-backed numeric bounds stay in their complete Journey Atlas route, carry an explicit temporal note, and remain absent here until the evidence supports normalization. The missing point is visible work—not permission to guess.