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
1150 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
law
Middle English continuation–today
binding rule, body of rules, or regular principle
1150 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
salt
Old English continuation–today
sodium chloride; saline substance; later figurative savor and scientific chemical class
1150 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
lay
Middle English continuation–today
to put, place, or set down
1150 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
-al
Middle English–today
of, like, related to, or pertaining to
1150 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
-ize
Middle English–today
make, become, practice, or perform
1150 CE–1200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse manuscript world
hatr
c.1150-1200 Hatr in AM 674 a 4°
A directly inspected folio visibly preserves Hatr in the Elucidarius line located and transcribed by ONP.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the manuscript dating reported by ONP; 1175 is only the attestation table’s representative point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
love / luve
c. 1150–1500
love, affection, beloved person
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-French and Middle English
dime
medieval transmission
Anglo-French disme or dime enters Middle English as a tenth part or tithe, centuries before the United States coin.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The range conservatively represents the Middle English period, not the exact date of every French or English occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
ten
Middle English, c. 1150–1500
ten
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
dime
Middle English, c. 1150–1500
a tenth part; tithe
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English England
lay
approximately 1150–1500
Leggen and leyen continue the Old English verb toward modern lay.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is the conventional Middle English language horizon, not a single sound-change date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
lawe / laue
Middle English
law, ordinance, or body of rules
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
salt
Middle English
salt used for seasoning and preservation
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
leggen / leyen
Middle English
to put, place, or set down
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEngland
-logy
Middle English -logie
A before-1398 Middle English Dictionary quotation shows the element inside ethimolegia; no autonomous suffix token is claimed.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The language-stage bounds remain broader than the single source-reported quotation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
king
king, kyng, kining, and cining forms
Disyllabic and syncopated spellings coexist before the contracted king form stabilizes.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The Middle English Dictionary supplies the form inventory but not one single date for the contraction across every dialect.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
word
Middle English
word, utterance, expression
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
kin
kin, kyn, kinne, cunne, and related forms
A large spelling inventory preserves family, people, ancestry, relative, kind, and category senses while the modern form emerges.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The Middle English Dictionary supplies forms and dated quotations but not one simultaneous change across every dialect.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
kind
kīnde noun and kīnd(e adjective
Class, species, essential nature, and origin remain active while the adjective’s fitting and affectionate senses develop toward modern benevolence.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The Middle English Dictionary supplies dated quotations and distinct noun and adjective entries, not one simultaneous semantic event across every dialect.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
kindred
kinrede / kindrede and the decline of X-RÆDEN
The compound loses the suffix ending, the broader formation competes with -ship, -hood, and -dom, and an intrusive d appears between n and r.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The sources support gradual morphophonological reduction and falling productivity, not one simultaneous change across every speaker or spelling.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
hatred
hate + -rede / -reden
English builds the whole word hatred during the period when the wider X-RÆDEN construction is losing productivity.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
Merriam-Webster reports a 13th-century horizon; the corpus supplies later spellings but not the first token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
hate
hate and haten
The noun and verb converge formally. Major dictionaries disagree on whether the noun directly continues hete or was remodeled from haten.
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English lexical transition
hete
hete beside hate and haten
Published dictionaries disagree on whether later hate directly continues hete or was remodeled from the verb and replaced it.
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English lexical transition
hatian
hatian to haten and hate
The inherited verb continues into Middle English while the noun may have been remodeled from it or may directly continue hete.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The transition and noun remodeling dispute are gradual rather than one dated event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
trewe
Middle English
faithful, steadfast, true
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
trewthe
Middle English
loyalty, fidelity, truth
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
truste
Middle English
confidence, reliance
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
trouth
Middle English
truth, troth, pledged fidelity
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
bitrouthen
Middle English
promise or pledge in marriage
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
trewes
Middle English
agreements, pledges
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.