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
Early modern30 ON THIS PAGE
1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
kin
kin as relatives, common ancestry, and kindred relation
The surviving noun narrows toward relatives and common ancestry; attributive adjective use is separately reported from 1597.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The modern-language anchor is conventional and does not assign exact dates to every semantic restriction or phrase.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
kind
kind, kind of, and kinda
The noun centers on class and nature, the adjective on benevolence, and the category phrase also develops hedge and discourse-marker functions.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The modern-language anchor is conventional. The sources document layered functions but do not license one exact date for every pragmatic use or reduced spelling.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
kindred
kindred as relatives and as related ancestry, origin, nature, or character
The noun survives as relatives or a family group; attributive use yields the adjective and later similarity senses while the old suffix is no longer transparent.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The modern-language anchor is conventional. Merriam-Webster reports the adjective in the fourteenth century, overlapping the medieval stage.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
hatred
hatred
The opaque compound survives after its second component ceases to function as a productive suffix; modern speakers generally parse neither its condition meaning nor its relation to kindred.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The modern-language anchor is conventional and does not imply uniform semantics across every variety.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
hate
hate as feeling, action, object, modifier, and weakened aversion
The word spans intense enmity, strong dislike, public compounds, and milder reluctance while retaining one spelling for noun and verb.
1500 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
-logy
Modern English
bound element forming nouns of expression, discourse, doctrine, theory, science, or study
1500 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMFinnish
kuningas
Finnish
king
1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish literature
clue
late 16th c.
The labyrinth-guiding metaphor emerges.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The prose label says late sixteenth century; the numeric layer conservatively exposes the whole century instead of inventing a narrower decade.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMacao and Cantonese maritime contact
chá
16th century
WALS links Portuguese chá to Cantonese cha through Portuguese import activity at Macao.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century describes the historically reported contact route, not one dated borrowing token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatjan
sixteenth-century manuscript custody
The codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is the route of the evidence object, not proof that spoken Gothic traveled with it.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatis
sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody
The directly inspected codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is the route of one evidence object, not proof that spoken Gothic traveled with it.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatan
sixteenth-century manuscript custody
The codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is the route of the evidence object, not proof that spoken Gothic traveled with it.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
fijan
sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody
The directly inspected codex was known at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is evidence-object custody, not word diffusion.
1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
fijands
sixteenth-century Codex Argenteus custody
The directly inspected codex was known at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is evidence-object custody, not word diffusion.
1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatizōn
sixteenth-century manuscript custody
The codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This traces the evidence object, not spoken Gothic.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMFrench
désastre
16th century
misfortune; calamity
1500 CE–1600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMMiddle French
émotion
Middle French, 16th century
movement, agitation, or disturbance
1500 CE–1700 CErange
CANONICAL FORMFrench
décimal
Early Modern French
of tenths; decimal
1500 CE–1700 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly Modern English record
fēond
fend, feend, feinde, and fiend
OED records competing long and short vowel pronunciations and extensive spelling variation before the long vowel becomes dominant by the eighteenth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval summarizes documented form and pronunciation competition without asserting one universal transition date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1700 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly Modern English record
fiend
competing long and short vowels
OED reports both long- and short-vowel pronunciations alongside spelling variation before the long vowel becomes dominant.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A documentary interval for pronunciation competition, not one universal sound-change date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–1799 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
science
16th–18th centuries
an organized body or branch of knowledge
1500 CE–1800 CErange
CANONICAL FORMTupi
jawára / jaguara
Tupi
large carnivore; a broader predator label than the modern English species term
1500 CE–1800 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly modern English print continuum
friend
friend and competing spellings
OED records continuing variation while the current friend spelling and short-vowel pronunciation become conventional. The process is not assigned to one city or year.
1500 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern Dutch-language continuum
vriend
vriend /vrint/
The current one-syllable noun coexists with historical and regional variant evidence. Dutch-language use is distributed and is not reduced to one map pin.
1500 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Scandinavian continuation
frændi
Danish frænde and Swedish frände
The inherited formation continues in relation or kinsman words while English, German, and Dutch cognates center friend. No branch is treated as semantically original by default.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A broad daughter-language continuation horizon, not one movement or innovation event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1500 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMDanish
fjende
modern Danish and documented early-modern continuation
enemy or opponent; hostile person, state, force, ideology, animal, or figurative threat
1500 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
friend
English; spelling attested from Middle English and standard today
a trusted or close companion; an ally, supporter, relation, form of address, or specialized modern contact
1500 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMDutch
vriend
New Dutch and current Dutch
friend, companion, intimate, supporter, ally, relation, lover, or familiar form of address
1520 CE–1540 CErange
ROUTE STAGEJus Municipale Frisonum manuscript tradition
hatia
manuscript J, 1520-1540
The register supplies hatijen in a prohibition involving harm and hindrance on an army road.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The range is the corpus manuscript date; the text page does not supply an independent composition date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1521 CE–1665 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly-modern Swedish record
fiende
fiendhom and fiende, 1521–1665
SAOB records political, biblical, demonic, and figurative uses across early-modern Swedish texts.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A multi-source evidence interval; no single coordinate or innovation site is asserted.
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.