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–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
bride
Middle English
bride; wife
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
deie
Middle English
woman in charge of milking and making butter and cheese
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
feynen
Middle English
make; fabricate; make a likeness; dissemble; pretend
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
-logie
Middle English
bound learned element visible in words such as etimologie
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
king / kyng
Middle English
king or monarch
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
kin / kyn / kun
Middle English
race, people, tribe, family, relatives, ancestry, kind, or category
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
kīnde
Middle English
essential nature, origin, family, species, class, sex, manner, or the created order
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
kīnd(e)
Middle English
natural, innate, fitting, proper, native, affectionate, loving, or benevolent
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
kinrede / kindrede
Middle English
family, lineage, blood relations, kinship, nation, or related people
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
hatrede / hatreden / hateredyn
Middle English
hatred; the state or condition of hate
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
hate
Middle English
hate, extreme anger, hostility, or the lexical base of hatrede
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
-rede / -reden
Middle English
a state, condition, quality, status, estimation, rule, or relation to X
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
haten
Middle English
to hate or treat with enmity
1150 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
frẹ̄nd
Middle English
friend, comrade, intimate, ally, patron, relation, possible paramour, or form of address
1151 CE–1175 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGroningen
fīunt
fiundum in a psalm gloss, 1151–1175
ONW displays the record in the article but explicitly says the Groningen psalm glosses are counted as Old Frisian. The map preserves the classification boundary.
1151 CE–1200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Essen?
fīunt
uiande and viannden, 1151–1200
Two Middle Franconian rhymed-text recensions continue the noun. ONW prints the localization with a question mark, so the coordinate remains unresolved.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A bounded text range and uncertain localization, not an exact movement event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1175 CE–1188 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld French textual record
étymologie
c. 1175–1188
CNRTL reports early ethimologie and ethymelogie forms in two medieval works with special contextual uses.
1175 CE–1225 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse homily manuscript tradition
hata
Holm perg 15 4° folio 89v, c1200
A directly inspected leaf writes hata in a command that contrasts love with hating no person. The scan establishes a textual object, not one geographic birthplace.
1175 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
ethimologie
Old French records from c. 1175
title reference, word explanation, or learned wordplay depending on the witness
BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
love
Old English period; English record before 12th c.
Bosworth–Toller documents Old English lufu; Merriam-Webster traces Middle English love from that form and reports English use before the twelfth century.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The directly reviewed lexicographic record establishes an English first-known-use horizon before the twelfth century. The route does not promote the older undemonstrated “before 725” label into numeric chronology.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGELatin and medieval French scholarship
logic
antiquity–12th century
The name of the logical art travels through Latin and French teaching traditions.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The reviewed Greek-to-Latin-to-French chain reaches English by the twelfth century. The numeric layer encodes only that upper bound, not a fabricated ancient start year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEnglish transmission from Old English or Anglo-French
December
before the 12th c. English first-known-use horizon
Middle English Decembre continues an Old English or Anglo-French form ultimately borrowed from Latin December.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Merriam-Webster reports English use before the twelfth century. The before-1200 bound does not choose between the cited Old English and Anglo-French transmission alternatives.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
law
before the 12th century
Old English lagu enters the written lexicographic record as a Scandinavian-origin law-word.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes the source's “before the 12th century” horizon rather than an invented first year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEngland
salt
before the 12th century
Merriam-Webster reports salt as an English noun before the twelfth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bound faithfully encodes “before the 12th century” without inventing a first year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-Saxon England
lay
before the 12th century
Old English lecgan supplies the inherited transitive set-down verb.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes the lexicographic “before the 12th century” horizon without inventing a first year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
salary
13th c.–today
fixed regular compensation
1200 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMItalian / early Italian
astro
Italian
star; celestial body
1200 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMItalian / early Italian
quaranta
Italian
forty
1200 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language guest senses
guest
13th c. core noun onward; later extensions
The hospitality recipient remains the core English guest, with later customer, program, performance, biological, and material-science extensions.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the source-reported thirteenth-century core noun. It does not assign that onset to every later extended sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
guest
13th century–today
a person receiving hospitality; a visitor
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.