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
1566 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish shah borrowing
shah
1566 first-known-use horizon
English directly borrows Persian shāh as the title of an Iranian sovereign.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1566 is the reviewed English first-known-use year, not an exact date for every borrowing event or title occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1566 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language shah usage
shah
1566 title onward; modern historical usage
Shah remains the English historical and political title for sovereigns of Iran and related Persian royal contexts.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the cited 1566 English horizon. It does not date every international historical or political use to that year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1566 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
select
1566 verb horizon
The English verb select is reported from 1566 for choosing from a number or group.
1566 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
select
1566 onward
Select continues in ordinary choice and develops technical, computational, institutional, and biological uses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval tracks the English verb after its reviewed horizon; later specialized senses are not all dated to 1566.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1566 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
shah
1566–today
a sovereign of Iran
1567 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language disaster senses
disaster
1567 first-known-use horizon onward
English disaster is recorded from 1567 for a calamitous event and now also applies to failures, harmful results, agitated people, and disorder. The current senses no longer require belief in astrological causation.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reviewed 1567 English first-known-use horizon. It does not date each later figurative or evaluative extension to that year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1567 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
disaster
1567–today
a sudden calamitous event
1571 CEexact
ROUTE STAGENahuatl-speaking central Mexico
aguacate
1571 Molina record
UNAM reports Molina's 1571 ahuacatl entry with fruit and anatomical senses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The year belongs to a reported dictionary witness, not the origin of the word.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1572 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
icon
1572 English record
Merriam-Webster reports icon in English in 1572 in the image or likeness family.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1572 is a lexicographic first-known-use report, not a directly inspected object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1572 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
icon
1572–today
image, likeness, representative symbol, or computer-display symbol
1573 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish printed record
etymon
1573
Merriam-Webster reports the first known English use of etymon.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is source-reported and the underlying print object was not directly inspected.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1573 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEModern linguistic usage
etymon
1573–today
The English noun now covers earlier forms, foreign donors, words, and morphemes used in derivation.
1573 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
etymon
1573–today
an earlier source form, foreign donor, or derivational base
1579 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
emoticon
1579 English emotion record
Merriam-Webster reports emotion in English first in the disturbance or agitation sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1579 is a lexicographic first-known-use report, not proof of first speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1579 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
emotion
1579 English record
Merriam-Webster reports emotion in English first in the disturbance or agitation sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1579 is a lexicographic first-known-use report, not proof of first speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1579 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
emotion
1579–today
feeling; originally also disturbance, agitation, or social movement
1580 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language hostile senses
hostile
1580 first-known-use horizon onward
From the enemy-related adjective, English hostile expands to unfriendly, oppositional, legal, corporate, workplace, and environmental senses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with Merriam-Webster’s 1580 first-known-use year. It does not imply that every later legal, corporate, social, or environmental extension arose then.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1580 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hostile
1580–today
of an enemy; antagonistic, adverse, or unfriendly
1582 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
mango
1582 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1582.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not proof that no earlier token exists.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1582 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
mango
1582–today
the fruit or tree of Mangifera indica
1588 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
etymological
current use
The adjective remains current for matters of etymology and etymological analysis.
1588 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
etymological
1588–today
of, relating to, or based on etymology
1588 CE–1599 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly Modern England
etymological
1588–1590s source horizons
Two historical dictionaries report close but nonidentical first-record horizons for etymological.
1595 CE–1605 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEEngland
conscious
circa 1600 English record
English conscious appears in the reviewed record for controlled awareness or perception.
1597 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEngland and global English
candid
1597–today
English candid begins in the source record with white and develops clear, fair, honest, frank, and photographic senses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1597 is a lexicographic first-known-use year, not proof of coinage or first speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1597 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
candid
1597–today
open, frank, honest; originally white in English
1598 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
omniscient
1598 English record
English omniscient appears in the reviewed record for universal or complete knowledge.
1598 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal literary and theological English
omniscient
1598–today
Omniscient applies to all-knowing beings and, later, narrators whose viewpoint can access every character.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the reviewed English horizon and does not date the narrator sense separately.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1598 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
omniscient
1598–today
having total, universal, or complete knowledge; also an all-knowing narrator or being
1600 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEModern English
clue
17th c.–today
clue specializes as evidence or guidance.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The modern clue sense is represented from the seventeenth century forward; the interval remains open rather than assigning an end date.
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.