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
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*rēdan
Proto-Germanic
condition or arrangement family also associated with counsel
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*hatiz-
Proto-Germanic
hate, anger, enmity, spite, or hostility
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*hatōjan-
Proto-Germanic
to hate or treat with enmity
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*xatjanan
Proto-Germanic
a reconstructed Germanic weak verb represented by Gothic hatjan, Old English hettan, and Middle High German hetzen
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*xatēnan ~ *xatōjanan
Proto-Germanic reconstruction alternatives
reconstructed class-III or related weak verbs meaning hate
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*fi(j)ēn-
Proto-Germanic reconstruction
a reconstructed verb meaning hate or be hostile toward
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*fi(j)and-
Proto-Germanic reconstruction
lexicalized enemy formation from the hate verb’s present participle
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*hwōtja-
Proto-Germanic adjective reconstruction
hostile or threatening
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*hwōtō
Proto-Germanic related noun reconstruction
threat or reprimand
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*frijōnd-
normalized Proto-Germanic participial formation
a reconstructed present-participial formation, the loving or favorably disposed one
500 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Germanic
*frī-
Germanic lexical base
to like, love, or be friendly to; also represented in the free verb family
500 BCE–300 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
μῦς
Ancient Greek literary record
mouse; also a muscle of the body
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
λογικός
Ancient Greek
of speech, reason, or reasoning
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
calx
Latin antiquity
lime, limestone
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
musculus
Latin antiquity
little mouse; muscle; also a mussel name
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
mūs
Latin antiquity
mouse
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
hospes (hospit-)
Latin antiquity
guest, visitor, or the person receiving a guest
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
hostis
Latin antiquity
foreigner or stranger in early use; later enemy
500 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin-speaking Mediterranean
hospitality
Latin antiquity
Hospes, hospitālis, and hospitālitās encode reciprocal guest and host roles and the practice of receiving guests.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the reviewed Latin family rather than one innovation event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Finnic
*sakna
Proto-Finnic reconstruction
sauna; proposed earlier stove reference
500 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMSanskrit
śramaṇa
Sanskrit Buddhist term
ascetic; monk
500 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic and West Germanic linguistic horizon
kin
*kunja- through geminated *kunnj-
The lineage formation develops West Germanic consonant gemination; Runic kunni makes the doubled n visible before Old English records.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval brackets reconstructed development and a fourth- or fifth-century runic witness; it does not assign one exact year to every sound change.
AUDIT RECORD ↗400 BCE–200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἐτυμολογία
classical / Hellenistic
analysis of a word’s true sense
400 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
λογική
Ancient Greek
the logical art or science
300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Greek learned usage
ἔτυμος
Hellenistic and Roman-period records
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον develops the technical sense “true sense according to origin.”
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds cover the later authors cited by LSJ rather than one coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Ancient Greek learned usage
etymon
Hellenistic and Roman periods
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον denotes the true sense of a word according to its origin.
300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Ancient Greek learned usage
étymon
Hellenistic and Roman periods
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον denotes the true sense of a word according to its origin.
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
candidus
Latin antiquity
bright white; shining; clear
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
candēre
Latin antiquity
to shine; glow; be white
300 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
quadrāgintā
Latin antiquity
forty
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.