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
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
tīen / tēn
Old English, before 1150
ten
450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGermanic and Anglo-Saxon Europe
salt
approximately 450–1150
Proto-Germanic *saltom is reconstructed behind Old English sealt and related Germanic words.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the Old English stage and its Germanic inheritance, not an exact Proto-Germanic coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
sealt
Old English
salt, sodium chloride, condiment, or preservative
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
lecgan
Old English
to lay, put, place, or set down
450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
king
cyning
Pre-Old-English i-umlaut fronts u to y, and Old English records the inherited ruler title.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the attested Old English language period; the cited lexicon record is not a claim that every token spans it.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
word
Old English
word, utterance, speech
450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
kin
cynn
Umlauted cynn carries kindred, race, people, tribe, family, lineage, generation, kind, gender, and progeny senses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the conventional Old English period; the cited dictionary record is not a claim that every token spans it.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
kind
cynd / gecynd and gecynde
The noun names nature, origin, generation, kind, and offspring while the adjective means natural, native, innate, proper, or inherited by birth.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The conventional Old English interval contains source-reported records; it does not assign every sense or prefixal variant to the entire period.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
hatred
hete and hatian
English records preserve both noun and verb. The later noun hate can be analyzed as direct continuation with remodeling or as a derivative from the verb that replaced hete.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The Old English forms are attested; their later lexical convergence is not assigned to one event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
hate
hete and hatian
English preserves a feeling noun and an action verb; Beowulf places the verb beside hostile deeds and injury.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The period contains multiple records; no one token is promoted as the first.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English textual traditions
hete
hete and its compounds
Gospel gloss, poetry, prose, homily, psalm, and biblical translation records preserve the noun and a productive compound family.
450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English textual traditions
hatian
hatian directed at persons, enemies, vices, and deeds
Gospel, Pastoral Care, poetic, legal, and other edited records preserve the verb across different objects and contexts.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A language-period range; none of the located records is promoted as the first token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English textual traditions
hettan
hettend(e)
The record is concentrated in enemy or persecutor forms. The located corpus lemmatisation inventory assigns only hettende to hettan, while the historical dictionary gives many hettend forms under “enemy.”
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
A language-period range; no located occurrence is promoted as the first token or as a directly witnessed infinitive.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
trēowe
Old English
faithful, firm, trustworthy
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
trēowþ
Old English
faith, loyalty, fidelity, truth
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
trēow
Old English
pledge, fidelity
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
trēow
Old English
tree, wood
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
bi-/be-
Old English
by, near; prefix with several later functions
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
riht
Old English
right, just, correct, straight
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
rīce
Old English
strong, powerful
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
wīfman
Old English
woman; female person
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
wīf
Old English
woman; wife
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
mann
Old English
human being; person; man
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
hlāford
Old English
lord; master; loaf guardian
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
hlāf
Old English
loaf; bread
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
hlǣfdige
Old English
lady; mistress of a household; loaf kneader
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
hūsbōnda
Old English
master of a house; householder
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
weard
Old English
guardian; keeper
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
-dige
Old English
kneader element
450 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
*gyrela
proposed Old English form
proposed predecessor of girle
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.