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
1604 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
etymologist
1604–today
a specialist in etymology
1604 CE–1639 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly Modern England
etymologist
1604–1630s source horizons
Merriam-Webster reports 1604 while Etymonline reports the 1630s.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval preserves the source disagreement pending direct witness inspection.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1606 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
legislation
1606 English report
Merriam-Webster reports English legislation in 1606, earlier than the 1650s horizon in Etymonline.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The year is a secondary lexicographic report and remains disputed by another chronology.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1606 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
legislation
17th century–today
Legislation names law-making, enacted laws, and matters before legislative bodies.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins with the earliest reviewed secondary report, not a claim of coinage or uniform diffusion.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1606 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
legislation
1606–today
the making of laws, laws collectively, or business before a legislative body
1608 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEFrench source and English mathematical use
decimal
1608 English adjective first-known-use horizon
The French adjective enters English mathematical vocabulary; Merriam-Webster reports 1608 for the adjective’s first known English use.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1608 is the reviewed English adjective first-known-use year. It does not pretend to date every French occurrence or the entire borrowing process.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1608 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEBase-ten mathematical usage
decimal
1608 adjective; 1623 noun; current use
Decimal functions as a base-ten adjective and noun. Merriam-Webster reports the adjective in 1608 and the noun in 1623, with both continuing in current mathematical use.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reviewed 1608 adjective horizon; the noun’s separate 1623 horizon remains explicit in the label and evidence note.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1608 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
decimal
1608–today
based on ten or tenths; a base-ten number
1612 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
nescience
1612 English record
Merriam-Webster reports nescience in English in 1612 with the meaning lack of knowledge or awareness.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1612 is the reviewed lexicographic first-use year, not proof of the first spoken use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1612 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
nescience
1612 onward
Nescience remains an uncommon learned noun for ignorance or lack of awareness.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins at the reviewed English horizon; it does not date every later occurrence or variety.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1612 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
nescience
1612–today
lack of knowledge or awareness; ignorance
1617 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEFrench and Italian donors; English reception
quarantine
1617 English noun first-known-use horizon
French quarantaine and Italian quarantena, both built on “forty,” contribute to English quarantine. Merriam-Webster now reports 1617 for the English noun’s first known use in the forty-day sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1617 is the reviewed English noun first-known-use year. It does not date every French or Italian donor occurrence, and it supersedes the previously stored 1663 report for this same source record.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1617 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal quarantine and biosecurity uses
quarantine
1617 forty-day noun onward; durations now vary
Quarantine now covers restraints on people, ships, goods, animals, plants, pests, and communications. Modern quarantines can last days, weeks, months, or other evidence-based periods; the inherited name preserves forty without requiring forty.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the reviewed 1617 English forty-day noun. It does not assign modern public-health, veterinary, agricultural, forestry, or figurative extensions to that year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1620 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
prescient
1620s–today
Prescient ranges from literal foreknowledge to the ordinary judgment that someone showed unusually accurate foresight.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with the reported decade and does not treat metaphorical foresight as literal supernatural knowledge.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1620 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
prescient
1620s–today
having foreknowledge or unusually accurate foresight
1620 CE–1629 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEngland
prescient
1620s English record
English prescient appears in the reviewed secondary lexicographic record for foreknowing.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The decade is source-reported; no underlying printed object was directly inspected.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1625 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
yogurt
1625 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1625.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not the invention date of the food.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1625 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
yogurt
1625–today
a fermented semisolid milk food
1626 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
hammock
1626 suspended-bed record
Merriam-Webster reports 1626 for the English suspended-bed sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report for noun sense 1, not the distinct terrain homonym.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1626 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hammock
1626–today
a swinging bed or couch slung from supports at both ends
1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatjan
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatis
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatan
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
fijan
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the custody transition horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
fijands
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the custody transition horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatizōn
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1650 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMGerman
Liebe
Present-day German
love; strong affection; a beloved person
1650 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMGerman
lieb
Present-day German
dear, beloved, kind, pleasant, welcome
1650 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
emotion
1650s–today
Strong feeling develops by the 1650s and later broadens toward feeling generally.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The opening decade follows the reviewed semantic history rather than one claimed first utterance.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1650 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMGerman
Weib
Modern German
woman; wife; increasingly discriminatory term
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.