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.
0043 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
Medieval6 ON THIS PAGE
1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
girl
girl, 14th century
The female-child sense is recorded and becomes dominant.
1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
boy
boy, 14th century
The male-child word is recorded in English.
1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval French and English transmission
rēx
rēgālis to royal and regal
The Latin king noun supplies a derived adjective whose Romance and English routes produce two separate modern descendants.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval combines the source-reported fourteenth-century horizon for royal and fifteenth-century horizon for regal; it is not one borrowing event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrench-speaking Europe
hospice
Middle French transmission
Middle French hospise or hospice adapts Medieval Latin hospitium and carries the lodging or shelter sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval represents the Middle French language stage rather than a claimed first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1372 CE–1374 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance
legislation
1372–1374 French record
French législation is recorded for a body of laws and later law-making authority.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
CNRTL reports the 1372–74 record; the coordinate locates France, not one manuscript repository.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1400 CE–1499 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
human
human, 15th century
The adjective and later noun spread through English.
Early modern7 ON THIS PAGE
1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
king
king as monarch and extended supremacy term
The inherited title expands into chess, cards, checkers, preeminence, and verbal uses while remaining the ordinary monarch word.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The modern-language anchor is conventional; the reviewed source does not license exact first dates for every surviving sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1530 CEexact
ROUTE STAGESpanish-speaking South America
poncho
1530 Spanish-language record
Iwasaki reports a 1530 Spanish-language record central to the Spanish-origin argument.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year and token are source-reported here; the underlying historical object was not directly inspected.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1555 CEexact
ROUTE STAGESouth Asia and the English-language world
rājā
Hindi–Urdu rājā to English raja, first reported 1555
The Sanskrit king word continues in Hindi and Urdu and is later borrowed into English as raja or rajah.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The exact year applies to the source-reported English borrowing, not to Sanskrit rājā.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1571 CEexact
ROUTE STAGENahuatl-speaking central Mexico
aguacate
1571 Molina record
UNAM reports Molina's 1571 ahuacatl entry with fruit and anatomical senses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The year belongs to a reported dictionary witness, not the origin of the word.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
candidate
1600 English first-known-use horizon
English candidate borrows Latin candidātus for a person seeking office. Merriam-Webster reports 1600 as the first-known-use horizon.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1600 is the reviewed English first-known-use year, not a claim that the borrowing process or every occurrence began at one instant.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1606 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
legislation
17th century–today
Legislation names law-making, enacted laws, and matters before legislative bodies.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins with the earliest reviewed secondary report, not a claim of coinage or uniform diffusion.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1763 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking Louisiana and beyond
bayou
1763 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1763.
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.