LANGUAGE
IN TIME.

A textual-transmission range, not proof that any meaning began or ended there.

The broad 1400–1699 interval contains the source's mid-fifteenth-century queen reform and early-seventeenth-century castling reform without inventing exact years.

The printed witness is source-reported; its object and production place were not directly inspected.

The range is the corpus manuscript date, not a semantic start or end date.

The upper bound includes both reported French records without inventing a lower date.

The two reviewed English transmission histories are attested before the twelfth century for the prayer noun and in the fifteenth century for the verb. The numeric layer exposes only their shared upper bound.

The numeric layer marks the early-modern-to-current global-English stage, not the first known use of love. Cambridge traces the worldwide expansion of English from early modern voyages through colonial and postcolonial adoption.

The reviewed first-known-use claim is circa 1500. The central year is encoded with circa precision, not promoted to an exact attestation date.

The open interval locates modern English continuation and does not merge the homonyms.

Modern productivity is open-ended; no unsupported first productivity date is asserted.

The modern-language anchor is conventional; the reviewed source does not license exact first dates for every surviving sense.