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
1066 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
proverbe
Anglo-French before 1400
proverb, maxim
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
logique
Anglo-French / medieval French
logic; rational art
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
legal
Anglo-French
of law
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
disme / dime
Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
a tenth part; tithe
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
ostel / hostel
Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
lodging or accommodation
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
leçon
Anglo-French, c. 1066–1500
a reading or lesson
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
directer
Anglo-French
direct, guide
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
masle
Anglo-French
male
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
humain
Anglo-French
human
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
persone
Anglo-French
person; character
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
humble
Anglo-French
low; humble
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
figure
Anglo-French
shape; form; likeness
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
deyerie
Anglo-French
dairy; milk-production place
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
feign-
Anglo-French bound stem
stem used in feindre
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
feindre
Anglo-French
fashion; make a likeness; pretend
1066 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
-erie
Anglo-French
place or activity suffix
1075 CE–1125 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEgmond, Holland
vijand
uiande in the Leiden Willeram, circa 1100
ONW locates a God-and-heretics enemy clause at Egmond. The named textual context does not justify one manuscript-production coordinate.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A bounded circa interval around the corpus date, not an exact token year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1075 CE–1125 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEgmond, Holland
fīunt
three Leiden Willeram records, circa 1100
The displayed uiande, uiandan, and uiende records show later Old Dutch nominal continuation in three separate clauses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A bounded circa interval around the corpus date, not one exact token year or manuscript coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
mussel
before the 12th c. first-use horizon
Old English muscelle names the bivalve mollusk on the direct route to English mussel.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The before-1100 bound exposes the source-reported “before the 12th century” English horizon; it is not an exact date for the Old English borrowing.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
mouse
before the 12th c. first-use horizon
Old English mūs is the direct recorded ancestor of English mouse.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The before-1100 bound exposes the source-reported “before the 12th century” English horizon; it does not date every Old English occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEngland
ten
recorded before the 12th century
Merriam-Webster reports English ten before the twelfth century, retaining the inherited Germanic numeral.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes the dictionary’s “before the 12th century” convention; it is not an exact coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEngland
word
Old English record before the 12th century
The inherited form is present in Old English and reaches Middle English without a borrowing event.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The upper bound encodes Merriam-Webster’s before-the-twelfth-century label; no exact first year is claimed.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
true
before 12th century–today
True retains faithful senses beside factual, accurate, and conforming senses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century and does not claim a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
truth
before 12th century–today
Fidelity and constancy are historically early while factual correspondence becomes central in modern use.
BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
tree
before 12th century–today
The plant noun later supplies branching-diagram and structural extensions.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century and does not claim a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
right
before 12th century–today
Right remains a dense cluster of correct, just, suitable, straight, and directional meanings.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century, not a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
rich
before 12th century–today
Rich develops from power and wealth into abundance, value, productivity, color, flavor, and intensity.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century, not a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
woman
woman before the 12th century
The ordinary modern word emerges from the contracted compound.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The endpoint encodes only the source-reported before-the-twelfth-century horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
man
man before the 12th century
The inherited word continues into global English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The endpoint encodes only the source-reported before-the-twelfth-century horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
lord
lord before the 12th century
The reduced title is recorded in English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The endpoint encodes only the source-reported before-the-twelfth-century horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗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.