*SET-U

THE TIMELINE ATLAS

JOURNEY ATLAS ↗

FORM / ROUTE / BOUND

1398 REVIEWED EVENTS

LANGUAGE
IN TIME.

One cross-word chronology for every defensibly bounded form and journey stage—without converting a vague historical label into a fake year.

1398BOUNDED EVENTS

820 canonical forms + 578 route stages.

4500 BCEEARLIEST ENCODED BOUND

A reviewed graph bound, not a claim of an earliest human word.

578NORMALIZED JOURNEY STAGES

Only stages with directly cited numeric bounds enter this atlas.

381JOURNEY DATES WITHHELD

Labels remain visible in Journey Atlas, but not parsed into false years.

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FILTER THE CHRONOLOGY

WHEN DID THE EVIDENCE LAND?

1398 MATCHING EVENTS
THE TEMPORAL CONTRACT

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.

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CROSS-WORD CHRONOLOGY / EARLIEST BOUND FIRST

THE EVIDENCE IN TIME

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Early modern10 ON THIS PAGE
1777 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English

taboo

1777 English record

Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1777.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not proof that no earlier spoken or written token exists.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1777 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

taboo

1777–today

a ritual or social prohibition; prohibited or set apart

3 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1786 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEUnited States

dime

1786 coin-sense horizon

The older tenth-word is applied to the ten-cent coin. Merriam-Webster reports 1786 as the first known use for that sense.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

1786 is the reviewed lexicographic first-use year for the coin sense, not proof of the first spoken use.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1786 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English

dime

1786 onward

The coin name continues and develops money, cost, basketball-pass, and accurate-throw senses without losing its ten-based identity.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

The interval begins with the reviewed coin horizon; later figurative senses are not all assigned to 1786.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1786 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

dime

1786–today

a United States or Canadian coin worth ten cents

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1788 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMDharug

bumarin

Dharug source candidate

missile or club; proposed source of boomerang

3 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1788 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMDharawal

bou-mar-rang

Dharawal source candidate

returning boomerang; proposed source candidate

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1790 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal scientific and figurative English

salt

1790–today

The inherited material word broadens to chemical salts and continues in figurative senses of savor, skepticism, and experience.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

Etymonline dates the modern chemical class sense to 1790; older material and figurative senses remain separately described.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1796 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language scientific record

humus

humus in 1796

The New Latin term enters English scientific vocabulary.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

The date is a source-reported English first-use horizon, not a known coinage event or address.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1796 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

humus

1796–today

partly decomposed organic matter in soil

3 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
Modern20 ON THIS PAGE
1800 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language nice senses

nice

19th c. onward

Pleasant and agreeable senses become established in the nineteenth century while precision and fastidiousness senses survive.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

The source places the familiar pleasant and agreeable development in the nineteenth century; the interval remains open into current usage.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMHindustani (Hindi–Urdu)

चाय / چائے

modern Hindi–Urdu

tea

3 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMisiZulu

ubuntu

Modern isiZulu

humanity; goodness

6 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMisiZulu

ubu-

Modern isiZulu

abstract-noun class prefix

1 EVIDENCE LINK

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMisiZulu

-ntu

Modern isiZulu

human; person stem

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMisiXhosa

ubuntu

Modern isiXhosa

humanity; goodness

1 EVIDENCE LINK

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMMāori

tapu

Māori record–today

sacred, prohibited, restricted, set apart, or under atua protection

3 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMHawaiian

kapu

Hawaiian record–today

prohibited, forbidden, sacred, consecrated, or set apart

4 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMUrdu

چائے

standard modern Urdu

tea plant, leaves, beverage, infusion, and tea gathering

4 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

nice

19th century–today

pleasant, agreeable, kind; also precise or discriminating

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

science

19th century–today

systematic knowledge, especially knowledge tested through scientific method

1 EVIDENCE LINK

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English

fiend

modern fiend

The literal enemy or foe sense is obsolete, while Devil, demon, wicked-person, harmful-thing, and later figurative uses continue in global English.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

A global language stage cannot honestly be reduced to one map pin.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1800 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal contemporary English

friend

friend across interpersonal and specialized senses

OED includes companion, ally, supporter, Quaker, climbing device, and social-network contact. Contemporary English is distributed and not reduced to one map point.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

A modern semantic continuum, not proof that every sense is equally common.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1818 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland

hospice

1818 English lodging horizon

English hospice is first reported in 1818 for a lodging, especially one maintained by a religious order.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

1818 is the reviewed first-known-use year for the lodging sense, not for modern palliative medicine.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1818 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

hospice

1818–today

a program or facility providing palliative care; historically a lodging or shelter

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1824 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEInternational English

boomerang

1824 English record and later global spread

Merriam-Webster reports English use by 1824; ANU documents later international and figurative development.

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

The exact year is the lexicographic first-use report; international spread and figurative senses are later and not reduced to that year.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1824 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English

boomerang

1824–today

an Aboriginal Australian throwing club; later, something that recoils on its originator

5 EVIDENCE LINKS

Canonical form chronology encoded in the reviewed lexical graph.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1833 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEastern Christian and English religious discourse

icon

1833–today

The Eastern Church sacred-image sense becomes explicit in English historical reporting.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

The opening year follows Etymonline's semantic-history report and does not date the older Greek religious practice itself.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1836 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEHawaiian-language record

kapu

1836 dictionary record–today

Historical Hawaiian dictionaries document kapu as prohibited, sacred, consecrated, and set apart.

2 EVIDENCE LINKS

1836 is the cited dictionary record, not a claim that the inherited word began then.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
1836 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEHistorical Armenian lexicography

ստոյգ

19th-century dictionaries–today

The classical spelling, senses, derivations, and competing etymologies are preserved in Armenian dictionary traditions.

1 EVIDENCE LINK

1836 marks the beginning of the New Dictionary of the Armenian Language publication range cited by the lexical tradition.

AUDIT RECORD ↗
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UNBOUNDED IS
A REAL RESULT.

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