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
1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval English language area
fiction
Middle English ficcioun
The English mental-invention noun is documented in the fourteenth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Century bounds are source-reported and the coordinate denotes a language region, not an occurrence site.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEngland
humility
14th-century Middle English and English
Middle English humilite and reported humylitee attest the noun before the modern spelling.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The bounds preserve the source-reported century; the circa-1390 citation is evidence within it, not proof of the first use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld French
ethimologie
14th c.
derivation of a word
1300 CE–1495 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
humiliation
Middle French, before 1449–1495 record
act intended to humble; fact of being humble or humbling oneself
1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEnglish lodging, charity, and care institutions
hospital
14th–15th c. semantic transition
English hospital is reported in the fourteenth century for lodging or charitable residence; fifteenth-century use develops toward an institution caring for sick or injured people.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval conservatively combines the fourteenth-century English first-use horizon and the cited fifteenth-century medical development; it is not an exact institutional chronology.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGENorthern France and England
check
14th–15th c. English first-use horizons
Anglo-French eschec and Old French eschac / eschés reach Middle English chek / chekke; the verb is reported in the fourteenth century and the noun in the fifteenth.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval conservatively combines the reviewed fourteenth-century verb and fifteenth-century noun first-use horizons instead of dating the full French transmission.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance and England
checkmate
14th–15th c. English first-use horizons
Anglo-French eschec mat reaches Middle English chekmat and the derived verb chekmaten; the verb is reported in the fourteenth century and the noun in the fifteenth.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval conservatively combines the reviewed fourteenth-century verb and fifteenth-century noun first-use horizons; it does not date every French or English occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval French and English transmission
rēx
rēgālis to royal and regal
The Latin king noun supplies a derived adjective whose Romance and English routes produce two separate modern descendants.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval combines the source-reported fourteenth-century horizon for royal and fifteenth-century horizon for regal; it is not one borrowing event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
legende
Middle English
a saint’s life or reading; inscription
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
algorisme / augrim
14th–15th centuries
arithmetic using Hindu-Arabic numerals
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
science / cience
14th–15th centuries
knowledge, learning, the ability to know, a branch of knowledge
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
chek / chekke
14th–15th centuries
a chess warning; assault, adverse event, restraint
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
chesse / ches / esches
14th–15th centuries
the game of chess
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
chekmaten / chekmat
14th–15th centuries
to checkmate or frustrate; the mating position
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
hostel
Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
lodging, accommodation, inn, or dwelling place
1300 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England
prologue
14th–15th centuries
Anglo-French prologue enters Middle English as prolog.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval encodes the lexicographic century report rather than an exact first object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
calkelatour
Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
one who counts or computes; a mathematician
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
prolog
Middle English, 14th century
an introduction or prefatory speech
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
verbe
Middle English, 14th century
verb
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
proverbe
Middle English, 14th century
proverb, maxim
1300 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse textual continuum
hatr
54-citation neuter entry and one-citation masculine analysis
The edited prose corpus preserves a dominant neuter analysis, one doubtful masculine assignment, and context-sensitive meanings. It is not reduced to one map pin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The stage carries the corpus beyond the located c.1300 record through the conventional later Old Norse textual period; it is not a first- or last-use claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
deierie
Middle English
a place where milk, butter, and cheese are handled
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
ficcioun
Middle English
invention of the mind
1300 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
humilite
Middle English, 14th–15th centuries
humility; humble disposition or conduct
1300 CE–1526 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Swedish textual record
fiende
Fiande in Söderwall’s medieval dictionary
Söderwall’s located edition excerpts document ordinary enemy and especially Devil uses. Their source worlds are not collapsed into a single map pin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A language-period range around multiple edited records, not one uniform regional event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1526 CErange
CANONICAL FORMOld Swedish
fiande / fiände
Old Swedish; recorded from the beginning of the 1300s
enemy or opponent; also the Devil in recorded medieval use
1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMFrench
intelligence
Middle French
understanding; knowledge
1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
hostile
Middle French
hostile or enemy-like
1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
nice
14th–16th centuries
foolish, simple, wanton; later fastidious or precise
1300 CE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrench-speaking Europe
hospice
Middle French transmission
Middle French hospise or hospice adapts Medieval Latin hospitium and carries the lodging or shelter sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval represents the Middle French language stage rather than a claimed first occurrence.
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.