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
BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
lady
lady before the 12th century
The rank and household word is recorded in 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
wife
wife before the 12th century
The inherited word is recorded in 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
loaf
loaf before the 12th century
Middle English lof continues into the modern noun.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The endpoint preserves only Merriam-Webster’s source-reported first-use horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
dough
dāg before the 12th century
The inherited noun is recorded in Old English and continues through Middle English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The endpoint encodes only Merriam-Webster’s source-reported pre-twelfth-century horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish lexicographic record
bride
before the 12th century
Merriam-Webster reports the English word before the twelfth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound reflects the published before-the-twelfth-century report.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEngland and global technical culture
logic
12th century–today
logic expands from scholastic discipline to everyday reasoning and computing.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
English logic is attested from the twelfth-century first-known-use horizon and remains current; later reasoning and computing senses are not assigned separate invented start dates.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
logic
12th century–today
the study or use of valid reasoning
1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
collect
before 12th century–today
to bring together; a prayer; payable by recipient
1100 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
ten
inherited word to the present
The cardinal number persists while noun, rating, money, and idiomatic uses accumulate.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval represents continuing English use after the medieval horizon, not the date of every later specialized sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
ten
modern spelling; inherited word recorded before the 12th century
the cardinal number one greater than nine
BEFORE 1101 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
clew
Old English, before the 12th century
Old English cliewen names the ball or wound thread behind later clew.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The numeric ceiling represents the source's before-the-12th-century horizon, not a first spoken use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
clew
literal and nautical survival to today
Clew survives beside clue; clue dominates the figurative evidence sense while clew remains required in nautical uses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins at the reviewed English horizon; it does not date every sense or spelling separately.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
clew
before the 12th century–today
a ball of thread; a guiding clue; a nautical corner, loop, or line
1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMFrench
candeur
French
brightness, purity, innocence, or candor
1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
trust
12th century–today
assured reliance, confidence, care, or obligation
1100 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
troth
12th century–today
pledged fidelity, good faith, or betrothal
1100 CE–1199 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEIberian and Latin translation worlds
algebra
12th century
Arabic mathematical vocabulary moves through translation into Medieval Latin and Romance.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The translation stage is encoded at century precision; the reviewed source reports Robert of Chester's work around 1140.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1199 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Latin Europe
algorism
12th century
The Latinized personal name becomes algorismus in arithmetic transmission.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century follows the reviewed Latin arithmetic-text horizon without asserting one first manuscript.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1199 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
trust
12th century–today
Trust expands from confidence and reliance into care, obligation, institutions, and legal arrangements.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval preserves the source-reported century and does not claim an exact first year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1199 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
troth
12th century–today
Troth survives as a marked word for pledged fidelity and betrothal.
1100 CE–1299 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin and medieval French scholarship
arithmetic
12th–13th centuries
Greek arithmetike passes through Latin arithmetica and Old French arsmetique into vernacular mathematical teaching.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval follows the reviewed twelfth-century French and mid-thirteenth-century English horizon without asserting continuous attestation at every point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Danish textual horizon
fjende
fiende known since 1100–1300
Gammeldansk Ordbog supplies the broad Danish record without one exposed earliest witness.
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
salarie / salaire
medieval
compensation, payment
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
nice
Anglo-French period
silly, simple
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
science / cience
Anglo-French period
knowledge, learning
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
eschec
Anglo-French period
a king in check; the warning in chess
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
escheks / eschez
Anglo-French period
the game of chess; literally plural chess terms
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
eschec mat
Anglo-French period
the announcement that the opponent’s king cannot escape
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
conscience
Anglo-French period
conscience, consciousness, or inward awareness
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
dialogue
Anglo-French period
conversation or a work in conversational form
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.