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
1276 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEastern Brabant
lief
1276–1300 Middle Dutch record
The Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek cites heuet lief in Lutgart A and localizes the record to eastern Brabant.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval dates the reported textual witness, not the origin of the adjective in speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1284 CE–1546 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrench candidat and learned circulation
candidate
1284 French record; 1546 public-office sense
CNRTL records French candidat in 1284 in an elite-soldier sense and in 1546 for a person seeking public office, with later academic use. This documents European circulation without claiming French was necessarily the direct donor to English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The 1284–1546 interval connects two explicitly dated French records with different senses. It is a documentary range, not the full life span of French candidat or a claim of continuous unchanged meaning.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language muscle senses
muscle
14th c. anatomical noun onward; later extensions
The anatomical noun continues from the fourteenth century and extends figuratively to strength, force, and coercive power. SET-U keeps this route separate from mussel even though both words shared the spelling muscle in Middle English and converge in the Latin mouse family.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the reviewed fourteenth-century anatomical horizon. It does not date every figurative strength, force, or power extension to that century.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
intelligence
14th century–today
capacity to understand; information; an information service
1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language host senses
host
14th c. core noun onward; later extensions
The receiving-host noun continues from the fourteenth century and later extends to event venues, media presenters, biological hosts, and networked computers. The route does not pretend those later senses share one onset.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the source-reported fourteenth-century core noun. It does not date the separate later event, media, biological, or computing branches.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
muscle
14th century–today
contractile body tissue; later strength or coercive power
1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language and international chess nomenclature
chess
14th c. English game name onward; later global adoption
The inherited English game name persists while rules change and chess becomes global. The unrelated grass called chess remains a separate word of unknown origin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the cited fourteenth-century English game-name horizon. It does not date worldwide adoption or every rule change to that century.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
host
14th century–today
one who receives or entertains guests; later many extended roles
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hospital
14th century–today
an institution for charitable residence and, later, medical care
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMMandarin Chinese
茶
modern Mandarin
tea
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hostel
14th century–today
an inn or inexpensive lodging facility
1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
candor
14th century–today
The moral sense of frank and honest expression becomes dominant while the brightness history remains recoverable.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reported English century and does not date the completion of the semantic shift.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
intellect
14th century–today
Intellect names a faculty, an individual capacity, and a person of notable reasoning ability.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins at the reviewed English horizon without claiming uniform global adoption.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
hospitality
14th century–today
Hospitality expands from reception and lodging into social, institutional, travel, and commercial domains.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins with the reported English century and does not date every later specialization.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
calculator
14th century–today
Calculator now names both a calculating person and, predominantly, a mechanical, electronic, or software device.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reported English century and does not date every later device class.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
prologue
14th century–today
Prologue broadens from an opening speech to introductory sections and preceding events.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reported English horizon and does not claim uniform global adoption.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
candor
14th century–today
frankness or honest expression; earlier brightness and purity
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
intellect
14th century–today
the power or capacity of knowing, reasoning, or understanding
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hospitality
14th century–today
reception of guests; provision of lodging; generous treatment of visitors
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
calculator
14th century–today
one who calculates; later especially a calculating machine or electronic device
1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
verb
14th century–today
English verb remains the grammatical class label.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval normalizes the reported fourteenth-century horizon to its lower bound; it is not a coinage claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
proverb
14th century–today
The traditional saying remains current while the hyphenated grammatical pro-verb develops separately much later.
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
prologue
14th century–today
an introductory speech, section, or preceding event
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMFrench
législation
French, 14th century onward
law-making authority, action, or body of laws
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
verb
14th century–today
a grammatical word class expressing action, occurrence, or state
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
proverb
14th century–today
a brief traditional saying, maxim, or adage
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
betroth
14th century–today
promise in marriage
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
regular
14th century–today
conforming to rule, pattern, order, or interval
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
royal
14th century–today
of a monarch, crown, or kingdom
1300 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
direct
14th century–today
guide, aim, command, straight, immediate
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.