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
1687 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
hotel
1687–today
a public lodging establishment, usually offering additional services
1694 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEFrench lexicographic record
étymologique
1694–today
The Académie records etymologique from its first edition and preserves the adjective through the ninth.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the source-reported first-edition record, not a directly inspected page object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1695 CE–1742 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly-modern Danish textual world
fjende
1695–1742 printed records and form variation
ODS and Holbergordbog expose fienden, Fiende, Fiænde, Finde, Fînde, Fiend, and competing syllable patterns.
1696 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
avocado
1696 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1696.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not proof that no earlier token exists.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1696 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
avocado
1696–today
the fruit or tree of Persea americana
1698 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
shaman
1698 English record and later generalization
English adopted the term and later extended it far beyond its Evenki setting.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The exact year is the lexicographic first-use report; global semantic expansion is later.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1698 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
shaman
1698–today
a spiritual practitioner described in English by the generalized term shaman
1699 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
algorithm
1699–today
a numeral procedure; later a finite stepwise procedure
1700 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish commercial networks
check
early 18th c. onward
The restraint sense is applied first to an anti-forgery counterfoil and then to the bank draft itself.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The source places counterfoil usage in the early eighteenth century and the bank-draft sense after it; the interval remains open rather than inventing an end.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMTongan
tabu / tapu
Tongan
forbidden, prohibited, unlawful; historically also sacred or consecrated
1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMInuit source (variety unspecified)
qayaq
Inuit source form; variety unspecified
kayak; traditional narrow skin-covered watercraft
1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMMapuche / Mapudungun
pontho / ponchu / pontro
Mapuche historical lexicography and modern pontro
poncho, coarse blanket, or wool blanket
1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMGreenlandic
qajaq
Greenlandic record–today
kayak; traditional narrow hunting and travel craft
1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMTurkish
çay
Turkey Turkish record–today
tea plant, leaves, beverage, and later social-event senses
1700 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
kind of / kinda
Modern English construction
a category expression reanalyzed as an approximator, hedge, downtoner, or pragmatic marker
1700 CE–1799 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEighteenth-century English record
fiend
long-vowel pronunciation becomes dominant
OED’s later-development note places the dominance of the long-vowel pronunciation by the eighteenth century.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The source supports century-level dominance, not simultaneous adoption by every speaker.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1700 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
fēond
modern fiend
The literal enemy or foe sense is obsolete, while Devil, demon, wicked-person, harmful-thing, and later figurative uses continue in English.
1717 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
poncho
1717 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1717.
1717 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
poncho
1717–today
a blanket-like sleeveless garment with a head opening
1723 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEFrench colonial Louisiana
bayou
1723 bayouque record
Merriam-Webster quotes the 1723 Louisiana French record by Pénicaut.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The historical quotation is source-reported here rather than directly inspected as a manuscript object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1723 CEexact
CANONICAL FORMLouisiana French
bayouque
Louisiana French; recorded 1723
bayou; stagnant or secondary watercourse
1743 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
tipi
1743 spelling-family record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1743.
1743 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
tipi
1743–today
a conical portable dwelling of certain Great Plains peoples
1747 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
alpaca
1747 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1747.
1747 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
alpaca
1747–today
the domesticated camelid; its fiber or cloth
1756 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEPresent French scholarship
étymologie
1756–today
Étymologie becomes the standard French name for word-origin research and historical explanation.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins at CNRTL’s generalized research-sense horizon.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1757 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
kayak
1757 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1757.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not proof that no earlier spoken or written token exists.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1757 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
kayak
1757–today
a narrow pointed boat propelled by a double-bladed paddle
1763 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking Louisiana and beyond
bayou
1763 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1763.
1763 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
bayou
1763–today
a creek, secondary watercourse, or sluggish body of water
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.