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
830 CE–999 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Saxon
hōti
Old Saxon Heliand record
hostile, inimical, or enraged
842 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGENorthern France
-logy
Old French -logie
The Latin learned element continues in Old French before reaching Middle English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds identify the conventional Old French stage rather than one dated borrowing event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
-al
Old French period
adjective-forming suffix
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
-iser / -izer
Old French period
verb-forming suffix
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
regal
Old French
royal, kingly
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
reiame
Old French
kingdom, government
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
reial
Old French
royal
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
riche
Old French
rich, wealthy
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
femele
Old French
female
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
humain
Old French
human
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
embuié
Old French
person in fetters
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
embuier
Old French
to fetter
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
buie
Old French
fetter; shackle
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
figure
Old French
shape; form; likeness
842 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
-logie
Old French
learned noun-forming element transmitted into Middle English
850 CE–899 CErange
ROUTE STAGECorvey catalog attribution
hatōn
Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century
The MDZ catalog identifies Corvey and dates the Munich manuscript to the second half of the ninth century. The point represents the catalog attribution, not the birthplace of the lexeme.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A cataloged manuscript-production interval represented by a bounded approximate point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–899 CErange
ROUTE STAGECorvey catalog attribution
heti
Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century
The directly inspected Munich witness visibly preserves heti at Heliand 1322. The point represents the catalog attribution, not the birthplace of the lexeme.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A cataloged manuscript-production interval represented by a bounded approximate point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–899 CErange
ROUTE STAGECorvey catalog attribution
hōti
Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century
The Munich witness directly preserves hotie and hotean. The point represents a catalog attribution, not the adjective's birthplace.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
A bounded manuscript-production interval represented by an approximate catalog point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–899 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Saxon
hatan
Munich Heliand manuscript, second half of the ninth century
to hate in the quoted enemy command; wider paradigm also glossed pursue
850 CE–999 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Heliand manuscript transmission
heti
Cotton C and Vatican V readings
Köbler reports the same Heliand 1322 spelling in C and V, but neither token was directly inspected and no single shared production point is invented.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conservative manuscript-transmission band; individual object dates and places are not collapsed.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–999 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Saxon Genesis and Saxon Confession records
heti
dative heti and genitive hetias
The Genesis object remains unresolved here; the Academy source key dates the Saxon Confession to the tenth century. The two records are not treated as one manuscript event.
900 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
mussel
before the 12th century–today
a marine or freshwater bivalve mollusk
900 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
mouse
before the 12th century–today
a small rodent; later many transferred senses
900 CE–999 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld High German textual world
Liebe
10th-century liubî records
The EWA article reports liubî and lioba in glosses and named Old High German sources from the tenth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century belongs to the reported Old High German textual horizon, not a claim about first spoken use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗900 CE–1050 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld High German lexical boundary
fīēn
no securely identified continuation after the reviewed pocket
The reviewed source does not establish one exact extinction event, last speaker, or later High German descendant of this verb.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
An evidence gap after the bounded record, not a dated death certificate for the verb.
AUDIT RECORD ↗900 CE–1200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Irish textual and glossary tradition
cais
cais and caise
eDIL groups citations capable of love or hate readings under its first cais headword. Individual cited objects and composition dates were not normalized or directly inspected.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional Middle Irish language-stage range; it is not an earliest-use claim for the headword or either sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗900 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic transmission
fjá
Hýmiskviða 22: goð fjá
The active verb occurs in a normalized Eddic verse about the world-serpent that hates the gods; no manuscript coordinate is manufactured.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A broad poetic-transmission horizon because no exact composition date or manuscript object was verified here.
AUDIT RECORD ↗900 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic transmission
fjá
Lokasenna 35: mangi fíár
The finite form appears in a normalized verse meaning that no one hates the son; the record is not converted into a false first-use date.
900 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic transmission
fjá
Skírnismál 33: Freyr fiásk
The reflexive form appears in a normalized curse stanza; active and reflexive grammar remain visible without inventing separate origins.
900 CE–1300 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Norse
fjá
Old Norse poetic record; exact composition dates not fixed here
to hate; in the reflexive, to hate someone
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.