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
1000 CE–1049 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPersian-speaking world
chai
By the 11th century in a source report
Encyclopaedia Iranica reports Bīrūnī discussing čāy and its use in China and Tibet.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The source places Biruni's report in the first half of the eleventh century; the encoded interval is 1000–1049.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1000 CE–1049 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPersian scholarly awareness
چای
first half of the 11th century
Iranica reports Bīrūnī discussing čāy and its use in China and Tibet, while refusing to equate awareness with widespread Persian adoption.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The range expresses the source’s half-century label; it is not a first-use date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1000 CE–1099 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld Turkic textual record
kayık
11th-century kayguk
The philological study reports kayguk in the eleventh-century Turkic record.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century is source-reported; SET-U has not directly inspected the underlying manuscript object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1000 CE–1100 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Turkic
kayguk
Old Turkic, 11th century
small boat
1000 CE–1300 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
eschac / eschés
Old French period
chess pieces; a check against the king
1000 CE–1300 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
eschés
Old French period
chess pieces; chess
1000 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
oste / hoste
Anglo-French
host or guest
1000 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
hospital
Anglo-French
guest lodging or charitable institution
1000 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
hospitalité
Anglo-French, c. 1000–1400
hospitality or entertainment of guests
1000 CE–1550 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse Christian textual world
fjándi
enemy to fiend and Devil
Historical and corpus dictionaries document the inherited enemy noun’s demonic branches after Christianization without locating one coinage event.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A broad textual-semantic interval, not a first-use point or one movement on a map.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
kindred
before the 12th century–today
relatives or a family group; of the same ancestry; related in origin, nature, or character
1050 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hate
before the 12th century–today
as a noun, intense hostility, aversion, or an object of hostility; as a verb, feel enmity or strong aversion
1050 CE–1200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Dutch textual record
vriend
friunt and friunde around 1100
EWN reports two Willeram quotations while SET-U keeps the underlying objects uninspected.
1050 CE–1200 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Dutch
friunt
Old Dutch, recorded around 1100
friend, beloved companion, or favored person; inherited loving-agent noun
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
liebe
Middle High German
favor, affection, love
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
liep
Middle High German
dear, beloved, pleasing
1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual landscape
hetzen
hetzen / hatzen
Poetic and didactic records show dogs driven after quarry and people set against one another across the Middle High German record.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A language-period range; the selected dictionary citations are examples, not endpoints for the whole lexeme.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual continuum
Feind
vīant, vīent, and vīnt
The historical dictionaries preserve several written forms inside the continuing enemy noun.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional language-period range, not one standardized pronunciation or exact transition date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German literary record
Hass
haʒ across hostility, action, anger, and rivalry
DWB reports Kudrun, Walther, Iwein, and Erec passages, including friendly competition described as bescheiden haʒ.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The conventional language period contains the cited records; no single coordinate or innovation date is asserted.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual world
hassen
haʒʒen across feeling and persecution contexts
BMZ and Lexer document the weak verb; DWB reports Behaim passages aligned with persecution as well as the later hostile-disposition center.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
The conventional period contains the source-reported records; no instantaneous semantic change is asserted.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual world
hazzōn
haʒʒen
Duden and DWB continue the paired Old High German forms into Middle High German haʒʒen. The stage represents a language-period record, not one geographic point.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The conventional Middle High German period, not an instantaneous merger of paradigms.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
wīp
Middle High German
woman; wife
1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual record
Freund
vriunt
Pfeifer and Grimm document friend, neighbor, lover, and relative senses across the Middle High German record.
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
hetzen / hatzen
Middle High German
drive dogs to hunt; pursue; incite people against someone
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
vīant
Middle High German
enemy or adversary
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
haʒ
Middle High German
hostility, hostile pursuit or action, anger in action, or measured rivalry
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
haʒʒen
Middle High German
to hate, dislike, or act against with hostility
1050 CE–1350 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle High German
vriunt
Middle High German
friend, neighbor, lover, or relative
1050 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEHigh German semantic continuation
fīant
Middle High German vîant to modern German Feind
The inherited enemy noun continues while the specific Old High German fixed formulas are not projected unchanged into every later stage.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A daughter-language continuation horizon rather than a single movement or coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1066 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
verbe
Anglo-French before 1400
verb; grammatical word
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.