LANGUAGE
IN TIME.

A decade-wide range preserves the source precision.

The range marks the Modern German stage rather than uninterrupted evidence for every sense in every year.

German is pluricentric and geographically distributed, so the modern language is not reduced to one map pin.

The range models the New High German continuum through the current reviewed dictionaries.

The range models New High German continuity through the currently reviewed dictionaries.

The official history names Holland but does not reduce this custody stage to one city or exact transaction year.

The official history names Holland but does not reduce this custody stage to one city or exact transaction year.

The official history names Holland but does not reduce this custody stage to one city or exact transaction year.

The official history names Holland without reducing the stage to one city or exact transaction date.

The official history names Holland without reducing the stage to one city or exact transaction date.

The official history names Holland but does not reduce this stage to one city or exact transaction year.

The English tea stage begins with the reviewed 1655 first-known-use year and remains open into current usage.

The before-1661 bound contains both reviewed reports: a dictionary first-known-use year of 1660 and the same publisher’s usage essay placing its earliest record at the end of the sixteenth century.

1666 is the reviewed lexicographic first-known-use year, not proof of the first spoken use.

The interval begins at the reviewed English horizon; later technical specializations are not assigned invented first dates.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic use.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic use.

This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.

The range combines separately reported witnesses; it is not a claim of continuous exclusive spelling.

1687 is the reviewed English first-known-use year, not an exact date for every French-to-English contact or occurrence.

The open interval begins with the cited 1687 English first-use horizon. It does not assign every later service or institutional extension to that year.