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
1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
realm
13th century–today
Realm broadens from kingdom to any domain, sphere, or major biogeographic division.
1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
person
person, 13th century
The individual-human noun is recorded in English and later spreads globally.
1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
husband
husband, 13th century
The married-man sense becomes the dominant modern center.
1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England and Anglo-French contact
humble
humble in the 13th century
The French adjective enters Middle English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The numeric bounds encode only Merriam-Webster’s thirteenth-century first-use horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval France and England
figure
figure in the 13th century
The Romance form enters Middle English through a French channel.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The numeric bounds encode only Merriam-Webster’s thirteenth-century first-use horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval English language area
feign
Middle English feynen and feignen
Make, fabricate, likeness, dissembling, and pretense coexist in the reported field.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Century bounds are source-reported and the coordinate denotes a language region, not an occurrence site.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1399 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance and England
algorism
13th–14th centuries
French algorisme and English algorism / augrim carry the Hindu-Arabic reckoning term into vernacular use.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval preserves Etymonline's early-thirteenth-century horizon and Merriam-Webster's fourteenth-century report.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Icelandic manuscript witnesses
frændi
circa 1200–1400
ONP links dated Icelandic manuscripts and edited citations for friend, kin, inheritance, and ancestor contexts. The witnesses locate textual survival, not the word’s origin.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A bounded manuscript-survival interval assembled from separately cited ONP records.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
lesson / lessoun
Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
a reading, assigned text, or unit of instruction
1200 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval France and England
conscience
13th-century English horizon
French conscience enters Middle English and is recorded for moral awareness.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval joins the source-reported thirteenth-century English horizon to the broader medieval transmission period.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Dutch
lief
Middle Dutch
dear, beloved, pleasant
1200 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England
dialogue
circa 1200–15th century
Anglo-French and Middle English forms transmit the literary dialogue into English.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The start follows Etymonline’s circa-1200 report; it is not proof of coinage.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
conscience
Middle English, 13th–15th centuries
awareness of conduct, morality, or inward knowledge
1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
dialoge
Middle English, circa 1200 onward
a literary work representing conversation
1200 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle Dutch textual record
vriend
vrient and variants
EWN, MNW, and WNT document early-thirteenth-century and later Middle Dutch forms and a wide semantic inventory.
1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Dutch
viant / vient
Middle Dutch
enemy or opponent; also the Devil, an evil spirit, or a monster in recorded contexts
1200 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle Dutch
vrient
Middle Dutch, recorded from the early thirteenth century
friend, ally, relation, lover, confidant, partisan, or form of address
1200 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle Low German linguistic continuum
hatōn
hāten
Köbler records the later Middle Low German continuation meaning hate or begrudge. The stage is a language continuum rather than one travel event.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Conventional Middle Low German continuity, not one exact transfer date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle Low German linguistic continuum
heti
hāte and hāt
Köbler records the later Low German continuation meaning hate or enmity. The stage is a language continuum rather than one travel event.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Conventional Middle Low German continuity, not one exact transfer date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–1700 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Irish lexicographic citation tradition
cais
compounds, glosses, and contextual readings
eDIL's evidence surface reaches beyond a single period and includes glossary equations and poetic citations. This stage records transmission and editorial grouping, not a semantic migration.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A broad later citation horizon within the dictionary's historical scope, not dates assigned to every quoted line.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEDutch-language continuum
fīunt
Middle Dutch viant or vient to modern vijand
The noun continues after the Old Dutch record while the corresponding inherited hate verb remains absent from known Dutch history.
1220 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Frisian Book of Rudolf textual tradition
hatia
text dated 1220-1300; copied in manuscript J 1520-1540
A source-reported hatie record concerns the army road. The text date and later manuscript-object date are not collapsed into one first-use year.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Corpus metadata dates the text to 1220-1300 and the manuscript separately to 1520-1540.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1220 CE–1540 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Frisian
hatia
Old Frisian legal and theological records, text 1220-1300 through manuscripts 1490-1540
to hate or reject; to damage; in feud-language, to harm or pursue as an enemy
1225 CE–1275 CErange
ROUTE STAGEThirteenth-century Old Norse prose traditions
hata
persecution and reciprocal hostility
Páls saga postula and Morkinskinna records show the verb in pursuit and hostile middle-voice constructions.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Manuscript ranges anchor the reviewed records without claiming first use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1236 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGhent, East Flanders
vijand
earliest VMNW record, 1236
VMNW locates its earliest thirteenth-century record in a Ghent documentary source.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Exact corpus year for the located documentary record, not the birth date of the word.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1240 CE–1260 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England
arithmetic
circa 1250 English horizon
Etymonline reports arsmetike in the mid-thirteenth century, while Merriam-Webster's first-known-use report begins in the fifteenth.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The ten-year window renders “mid-13th century” approximately and keeps the competing later report visible.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1250 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal mathematics
arithmetic
mid-13th century–today
Arithmetic continues as a practical and theoretical number discipline while its spelling is realigned with Greek and Latin.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins at the earlier reviewed English horizon and does not claim an exact coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1250 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
arithmetic
mid-13th century–today
the art, practice, or branch of mathematics concerned with numbers and calculation
1250 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
arsmetike / arsmetrik
Middle English, mid-13th–15th century
arithmetic or the art of computation
1265 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEWest Brabant and West Flanders
vijand
secure Devil-sense record, 1265–1300
VMNW records repeated Devil or Lucifer uses in the Life of Saint Lutgard, Rijmbijbel, and Liège Diatessaron textual worlds.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A corpus interval covering multiple named sources and regions, not one innovation event.
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.