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
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
clue
17th c.–today
a fact that guides a solution
1600 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
candidate
1600 English first-known-use horizon
English candidate borrows Latin candidātus for a person seeking office. Merriam-Webster reports 1600 as the first-known-use horizon.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1600 is the reviewed English first-known-use year, not a claim that the borrowing process or every occurrence began at one instant.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language candidate senses
candidate
1600 office-seeker onward; later extensions
The office-seeker remains central, while candidate expands to people nominated or qualified for awards, jobs, degrees, surgery, and other possible selection or treatment.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reviewed 1600 office-seeker horizon. It does not assign that onset to every later institutional, academic, medical, or general suitability sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
candidate
c. 1600–today
a person seeking office, selection, or appointment
1600 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language decimate senses
decimate
17th c. onward
The drastic-reduction and severe-destruction senses are not a recent mistake: Merriam-Webster reports that the broader meaning arose within a few decades and has been used steadily since the seventeenth century.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins at the start of the source-reported seventeenth-century horizon. It is a conservative century boundary, not an invented exact broadening year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMFrench
hôtel
French
hotel, mansion, or lodging establishment
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMDutch
thee
17th century–today
tea
1600 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
llama
1600 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1600.
1600 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
conscious
circa 1600–today
The adjective expands across wakefulness, awareness, subjective feeling, intention, and later psychoanalytic usage.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins at the reviewed English horizon without assigning invented dates to every sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMEvenki
šamān
Evenki
Evenki ritual or spiritual specialist
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
llama
1600–today
the South American camelid
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMSpanish
alpaca
colonial and modern Spanish
alpaca; its hair or cloth
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMDakota
thípi
Dakota historical and modern record
dwelling; the source of English tipi
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMDakota
thí-
Dakota historical and modern record
to dwell
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
conscious
circa 1600–today
aware, awake, subjectively felt, or deliberate; later also a psychoanalytic noun
1600 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMRussian
чай
Russian record–today
tea
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatjan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the codex was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatis
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the Codex Argenteus was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the codex was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
fijan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
The codex was in Emperor Rudolph II’s Prague collection by 1600 and was taken by Swedish forces in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
fijands
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
The codex was in Emperor Rudolph II’s Prague collection by 1600 and was taken by Swedish forces in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatizōn
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the codex was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1600 CE–1699 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEXiamen, Fujian
tea
Southern Min contact era
The te-type form associated with Amoy/Xiamen enters the Dutch maritime network.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Dutch contact and maritime diffusion are encoded only at seventeenth-century precision.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE–1699 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEDutch maritime network
tea
17th century
Dutch thee spreads through European commerce and later colonial routes.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Dutch contact and maritime diffusion are encoded only at seventeenth-century precision.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE–1800 CErange
CANONICAL FORMChoctaw
*bayok
proposed early Choctaw
proposed early Choctaw form for a bayou or watercourse
1603 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish North America
moose
1603 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1603.
1603 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
moose
1603–today
the largest living member of the deer family
1604 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
jaguar
1604 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1604.
1604 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
jaguar
1604–today
the large American cat Panthera onca
1604 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
etymologist
current specialist title
Etymologist remains the person-label for a specialist in word histories.
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.