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
Medieval30 ON THIS PAGE
500 CE–1000 CErange
CANONICAL FORMTocharian B
kwīpe
Tocharian B
shame; modesty; woman comparison
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
legenda
Medieval Latin
things to be read
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMClassical Arabic
jabara
Classical Arabic
to restore, reunite, set or mend
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
hospitāle
Medieval Latin
guest accommodation; hospice or charitable lodging
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
decimālis
Medieval Latin
of a tenth part; of a tithe
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
hospitium
Medieval Latin, c. 500–1500
hospitality, lodgings, monastic guesthouse, or shelter
500 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Latin Europe
legislation
Medieval Latin formation
Legislatio combines the law component with lātio, a bearing or proposing formation from ferre.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval includes the circa-1238 Medieval Latin attestation reported by CNRTL without inventing one point of formation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
omniscientia
Medieval Latin
all-knowledge or omniscience
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
lēgislātiō, lēgislātiōnem
Medieval and Late Latin
proposal or bearing of a law; later a body of laws
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
verbātim
Medieval Latin
word for word
500 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
-ātim
Medieval Latin
distributive adverb-forming suffix
500 CE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval and early-modern Latin scholarship
omniscient
Medieval or New Latin formation
Omniscientia and omnisciēns combine universal quantity with the Latin knowledge family.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval preserves the competing Medieval-Latin and New-Latin classifications without inventing one place.
AUDIT RECORD ↗600 CE–1000 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Chinese (reconstructed reading)
*drae
Middle Chinese reconstruction
tea; name of a plant
600 CE–1200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPersian
šatranj
Persian
chess
600 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
omniscient-, omnisciēns
Medieval or New Latin
knowing all things; all-knowing
650 CE–1100 CErange
CANONICAL FORMClassical Arabic
al-šaṭranj
early Islamic Arabic
chess
650 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
-ræden
Old English
condition, state, estimation, rule, or relation to the first compound element
650 CE–1200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMClassical Arabic
šāh
early Islamic chess vocabulary
king; the king in chess
650 CE–1200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMClassical Arabic
māt
Arabic chess vocabulary
checkmated; alternatively interpreted as “has died”
700 CE–799 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld High German textual world
hazzōn
hazzēn source-reported in the eighth century
Starling prints the ēn citation form with an eighth-century label. This is a database report, not a directly inspected witness or proof of first use.
700 CE–899 CErange
ROUTE STAGEKhwārizm
algorithm
8th–9th centuries
The scholar's nisba identifies a connection to Khwārizm, south of the Aral Sea.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The eighth-to-ninth-century biographical window is encoded as a broad calendar range; it does not claim an exact date for the nisba.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 CE–999 CErange
ROUTE STAGEIreland
rí
Old Irish rí and ríg, 8th–10th centuries
The nominative rí and genitive stem ríg are recorded in the medieval Goidelic tradition.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval follows the source description of Old Irish use, not a coinage date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 CE–1000 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Irish
rí
Old Irish, 8th–10th centuries
king; chief or foremost person
700 CE–1100 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
muscelle
Old English
a mussel
700 CE–1100 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
mūs
Old English
mouse
700 CE–1100 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
giest / gyst / gest / gæst
Old English
guest or stranger
700 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
cliewen
before 1150
ball, sphere, ball of thread
700 CE–1150 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld English
lagu
Old English
ordinance, prescribed rule, regulation, or legal district
700 CE–1200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse linguistic horizon
fjá
early fía into poetic fjá
The lexical sources preserve an early form and later headword without one dated transition or point of origin.
700 CE–1200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Norse
fía
early Old Norse form reported by Zoëga and referenced by ONP
to hate
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.