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
Prehistory30 ON THIS PAGE
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dhē-mnā-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed reduced formation
woman or nursing female formation
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dheh₁(i)-
oldest Proto-Indo-European form
to suck
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjándi
proposed *peh₁- comparison
Kroonen’s deeper route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjende
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*(dh)ghom-on-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed formation
earthling; human being
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dhghem-
Proto-Indo-European centum form
earth
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīēn
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*h₃ekʷ-
oldest Proto-Indo-European form
to see
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjá
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
hata
qualified *ḱeh₂d- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal whose semantic members remain disputed.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative horizon, not an attested word or archaeological point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
hatia
qualified *ḱeh₂d- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal whose semantic members remain disputed.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative horizon, not an attested word or archaeological point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*bhōw-
Proto-Indo-European lengthened o-grade
to live; dwell
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*bheuə-
Proto-Indo-European root
to be; exist; grow
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*bheuhₓ-
oldest Proto-Indo-European form
to be; exist; grow
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
cais
*kad- and *kad-t/si-
The deepest displayed route is a cross-branch comparative proposal. No archaeological point, single speech community, or original love-versus-hate meaning is asserted.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEDisputed Indo-European comparative horizon
hazzōn
*ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es-
The formal comparison reaches beyond Germanic, but it does not recover one place, one action, one emotion, or one directly spoken word.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative horizon, not an archaeological location or attestation date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*gʷou-
Proto-Indo-European root
ox; bull; cow
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*wor-to-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed o-grade formation
watching; guarding formation
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*wer-³
Proto-Indo-European root
to perceive; watch out for
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīunt
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dheigh-
Proto-Indo-European centum form
to form; build
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dheig̑h-
oldest Proto-Indo-European form
to form; build
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
hatōn
qualified *ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal, not a word tied to one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
heti
qualified *ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal, not a word tied to one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European bore-prick horizon
hōti
Köbler and Pokorny *kʷē̆d- / *kʷō̆d- lane
One competing route connects the adjective through threat and Germanic whet or incite comparanda. A reconstructed linguistic horizon is not one archaeological point.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European hate-grief horizon
hōti
UT k̑ād- lane crosswalked to the reviewed *ḱeh₂d- proposal
The other route places hōti with the hate family. Its semantic unity and exact reconstruction remain qualified.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Competing comparative lane, not a second event in a single linear journey.
AUDIT RECORD ↗4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEDisputed Indo-European comparative horizon
κῆδος
*ḱh₂d-es- and *ḱeh₂d-
Greek care and grief are compared with Celtic, Germanic, Italic, and other material, but the reconstruction is not one archaeological place or attested speech event.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
friend
*prī-
American Heritage places the Germanic friend and free family under a reconstructed Indo-European root. This is not one archaeological site, written token, or recoverable friendship institution.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*(dh)ghm̥-on-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed zero-grade formation
earthling; human being
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMProto-Indo-European
*dhoigh-o-
Proto-Indo-European suffixed o-grade formation
formed or kneaded mass
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.