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
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
prologue
Anglo-French period
a prologue or prefatory discourse
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
arsmetique / arismatike
Old French and Anglo-French, 12th century onward
arithmetic or reckoning
1100 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
algorisme / augorisme
Old French, 12th–14th centuries
the art of reckoning with Hindu-Arabic numerals
1100 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic transmission
hata
damage, destruction, haters, and gold imagery
Lexicon Poeticum exposes multiple poetic constructions and dates while warning that its concordance has not been reviewed.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A source-reported poetic horizon whose individual dates require checking.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Latin Europe
algorithm
12th–15th centuries
Latinized name forms become terms for arithmetic with Hindu-Arabic numerals.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Latin and Middle English arithmetic transmission is modeled across the twelfth through fifteenth centuries.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
logik
Middle English
the science of reasoning
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
legende
Anglo-French
reading matter; saint’s life
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
collecten
Middle English
to accumulate, infer, calculate
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAnglo-French
collecter
Anglo-French
to collect, accumulate
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
algorismus
12th–15th centuries
arithmetic; computation with Hindu-Arabic numerals
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
muscle
Middle English
a muscle or muscular organ
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
muscle
Middle English
a mussel
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
mous
Middle English
mouse
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
ost / host
Middle English
host or guest; a person in a hospitality relationship
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
gest / gyst / gust / gist
Middle English
guest, visitor, stranger
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
hospital / ospitale
Middle English
residence for pilgrims and travelers; charitable lodging for poor or infirm people
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
Decembre
Middle English
the last month of the year
1100 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England
clew
Middle English, c. 1100–1500
Middle English clewe / clew continues the literal thread-ball word.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is the dossier's historical-language range, not a claim that every spelling persisted uniformly.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance and England
hospitality
medieval French and English transmission
Anglo-French hospitalité enters Middle English as hospitalite.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The broad interval covers the dossier's medieval transmission stages without inventing one crossing date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
hospitalite
Middle English, c. 1100–1500
reception of guests or provision of lodging
1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
emouvoir / esmovoir
Old French, 12th century onward
to stir up, move, or agitate
1100 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English written record
fēond
fẹ̄nd and extensive spelling variation
The Middle English Dictionary records 188 quotations across enemy, Devil, demon, possession, monster, and related senses, while OED documents inherited and remodeled plurals.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A period-level written-record stage, not one place or single standardized form.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English written record
fiend
fẹ̄nd, fend, feend, fiend, and extensive variation
The Middle English Dictionary records 188 quotations across eight senses; OED’s forms preserve inherited plurals and regional spellings while enemy, Devil, demon, possession, and monster uses overlap.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A period-level written-record stage, not one place, pronunciation, or standardized form.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Danish
fiende
Old Danish, known since 1100–1300
enemy
1100 CE–1550 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse prose corpus
fjándi
222 citations across six senses
ONP’s structured entry preserves enemy, demon, evil-spirit, pagan-god, Satan, and derogatory uses as a semantic network.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A conventional prose-corpus horizon; it does not date all 222 records or claim completeness.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMedieval Latin
algebra
12th–16th centuries
restoration; bone-setting; the mathematical art
1100 CE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle Low German comparison horizon
hōti
later höt or höte comparanda
Köbler supplies later hostile, bad, or violent adjectives as comparanda, not as direct proof of one exact Old Saxon-to-Middle-Low-German token chain.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Conventional language-period envelope; no first or last occurrence is claimed.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
fiend
English continuation
an enemy, evil spirit, or cruel and wicked person
BEFORE 1150 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
clue
before 1150
cliewen names a ball or wound thread.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The Old English record is earlier than 1150. An upper bound is encoded without inventing a lower bound for the stage.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
law
Middle English continuation–today
Law expands from binding custom and rule to institutions, professions, bodies of law, and regular scientific principles.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the conventional Middle English continuation and does not date each later sense.
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.