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–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
hospise / hospice
Middle French, c. 1300–1600
lodging, shelter, or religious guesthouse
1300 CE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance
candid
Middle French, c. 1300–1600
French candide carries brilliance and favorable disposition toward English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is the dossier's Middle French range; the source does not identify one first borrowing event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
candide
Middle French, c. 1300–1600
brilliant; favorably disposed
1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
adverbe
Middle French
adverb
1300 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
fiction
Middle French
invention; feigning; pretense
1300 CE–1700 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
clew
c. 1300–1600s
a ball of thread or yarn
1300 CE–1700 CErange
CANONICAL FORMFrench
quarantaine
Middle / early modern French
a period or group of forty; later health isolation
1300 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
check
14th century–today
verify, restrain, inspect, mark; a bank draft
1300 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
chess
14th century–today
the two-player strategy board game
1300 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
checkmate
14th century–today
an inescapable chess defeat; complete thwarting
1350 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
etymology
late 14th c.–today
the history and origin of a word
1350 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEngland
legible
late 14th–15th centuries
The learned Latin adjective enters Middle English.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval preserves the late-fourteenth versus fifteenth-century lexicographic reports.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
legible
Middle English, late 14th–15th century
capable of being read
1350 CE–1531 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval English learned vocabulary
etymologize
late 14th century onward
The base etymology is established in English before the derived verb appears.
1350 CE–1604 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval and Early Modern English learned vocabulary
etymologist
late 14th century–1604
The base etymology precedes the specialist title; productive -ist creates a person-label in English.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The lower bound is the reviewed base-noun horizon, not a date for etymologist.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly New High German legal and polemical record
hetzen
hetzen / hessen / hittzen
Hunting law and sixteenth-century polemic preserve physical chase alongside transferred incitement.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A historical-language interval supported by dictionary-located records.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly New High German print record
hassen
hassen and hasz in dated examples
DWB reports printed examples including Agricola in 1560, showing continuity into the early modern period without one fixed intensity or spelling.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is the Early New High German period, not a single lexical event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1650 CErange
CANONICAL FORMEarly New High German
hetzen / hessen / hittzen
Early New High German
hunt with dogs; drive; set people against one another
1350 CE–1650 CErange
CANONICAL FORMEarly New High German
hassen
Early New High German textual record
to hate or strongly dislike
1350 CE–1996 CErange
ROUTE STAGENew High German textual continuum
Hass
hasz or Haß before the spelling reform
DWB reports hostile-disposition examples from biblical translation, proverb, drama, poetry, and prose traditions, while Duden confirms that the later standard spelling changed.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The long interval models spelling and semantic continuation, not one uniform standard or unchanged pronunciation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1996 CErange
CANONICAL FORMGerman
Haß / hasz
New High German spelling history before the 1996 reform
hostile disposition, hatred, anger, or hostile action
1350 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German-language continuum
Freund
Freund
DWDS and Duden document current companion, partner, supporter, patron, ally, and address senses. German is pluricentric and is not reduced to one map pin.
1350 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMGerman
Freund
New High German and current German
friend, trusted companion, romantic partner, supporter, patron, ally, or familiar form of address
1372 CE–1374 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance
legislation
1372–1374 French record
French législation is recorded for a body of laws and later law-making authority.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
CNRTL reports the 1372–74 record; the coordinate locates France, not one manuscript repository.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1377 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEDubrovnik / Ragusa
quarantine
1377 thirty-day trentino law
Ragusa, now Dubrovnik, enacted a thirty-day separation rule in 1377 for arrivals from plague-affected areas. This is the documented civic precursor, called trentino—not yet the forty-day quarantine named by the modern word.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
1377 is directly reported for the Ragusan legislation and its thirty-day rule. The point marks Dubrovnik, the named polity, not every Mediterranean isolation practice.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1380 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEngland
humiliation
late 14th-century Middle English
Chaucer’s humiliacioun occurs inside a humility passage before the separately reported English verb humiliate.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad range locates the edited Chaucer text; no manuscript or exact composition year was directly verified.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1380 CE–1400 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle English
humiliacioun
late 14th-century Middle English record
humbling, abasement, or humbled condition
BEFORE 1400 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGERome and medieval Europe
etymology
antiquity–14th c.
The learned compound travels through Latin and French.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The reviewed transmission chain reaches its first known English record in the fourteenth century. Only an upper bound is encoded because the Greek, Latin, and French portions begin much earlier.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1400 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
legal
15th century–today
legal expands through law, institutions, and rule-governed domains.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The English adjective is attested from the fifteenth-century first-known-use horizon and remains current across later legal and rule-governed senses.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1400 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
legal
15th century–today
of, founded on, or permitted by law
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.