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
Modern18 ON THIS PAGE
1987 CE →open
ROUTE STAGENetworked English communication
emoticon
1987–today
Emoticon names ASCII and keyboard-character expressions; Unicode distinguishes this English compound from Japanese emoji.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with Merriam-Webster's reported first known use and preserves the later 1992 source report as a dispute.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1987 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGreenlandic qajaq terminology
qajaq
1987 terminology record–today
Oqaasileriffik publishes qajaq and hundreds of words for the craft and its use.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
1987 identifies the cited terminology source, not the beginning of the inherited word.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1987 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
emoticon
1987–today
keyboard characters depicting a facial expression, posture, emotion, or attitude
1988 CE–1992 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern Danish corpus
fjende
1988–1992 dated examples
DDO documents personal, political, and figurative enemy uses in dated modern examples.
1992 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGECurrent Danish
fjende
dictionary state through 2026
Current grammar, two pronunciations, derivatives, compounds, and sense distinctions remain public in DDO.
1996 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGerman orthographic standard
Hass
1996 spelling change to Hass
Duden explicitly identifies 1996 as the standard spelling change. This is an orthographic event, not the origin of the word or emotion.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is directly source-reported; no single city or publication is claimed as the entire reform.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1996 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German-language continuum
Hass
Hass as intense aversion or hostility
Duden and DWDS document the current feeling-centered sense. German is pluricentric and distributed, so the stage is not reduced to one map pin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The current interval follows the reported spelling reform and does not imply semantic uniformity in every use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1996 CE–2026 CErange
CANONICAL FORMGerman
Hass
current German standard spelling since 1996
intense aversion, rejection, or hostility toward a person, group, or institution
1997 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
emoji
1997 English record
Merriam-Webster reports English first known use in 1997.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The year is a lexicographic first-use report, not a claim that no earlier token can exist.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1997 CE →open
CANONICAL FORMPresent-Day English
emoji
1997–today
a small image, symbol, or icon used in electronic communication
2007 CE–2019 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoyal Irish Academy digital dictionary
cais
eDIL published online in 2007; revised 2013–2019
The searchable digital edition exposes headwords, variants, definitions, citations, translations, and references, while its About page says revision is targeted rather than globally uniform.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds describe publication and revision milestones of the evidence surface, not the historical life of cais.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2017 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEGreek and Anatolian name-contact scholarship
ἐτεός
Late Bronze Age contact context; analysis published 2017
The ἐτεο- element also appears in Eteocles, whose cross-linguistic name history motivates a carefully qualified phonological discussion.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
2017 dates the reviewed thesis analysis, not the ancient personal name.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2023 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEModern Turkish kayık
kayık
2023 dictionary record–today
The Turkish Language Association preserves the current small-boat headword.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
2023 identifies the cited dictionary edition, not the beginning of the modern form.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2023 CE →open
ROUTE STAGETurkey Turkish record
çay
2023 dictionary edition–today
TDK records the modern form and its expanded semantic field.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The date identifies the current dictionary edition, not the beginning of the word.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2024 CE →open
ROUTE STAGESpanish-language aguacate
aguacate
current RAE record
Spanish adapted and continues the Nahuatl fruit word as aguacate.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
2024 identifies the cited online dictionary edition; it is not a first-use claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2026 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEPortuguese-language record
chá
current Infopédia record
The living Portuguese headword preserves the cha-type form and /ʃ/ pronunciation.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
2026 identifies the consulted online record, not the beginning of Portuguese chá.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2026 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEUrdu-language record
چائے
standard modern spelling–today
Rekhta records چائے as the current standard form and labels its origin Persian.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
2026 identifies the consulted record, not the beginning of the standard spelling.
AUDIT RECORD ↗2026 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEModern Corpus Oudfries research surface
hatia
version 1.0 overview, May 2026
The corpus makes six search hits inspectable, while Buma's critical note and Nijdam's translation require one Brokmer hit to be excluded from the hate verb.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
The exact year dates the public corpus overview, not the medieval lexical material.
AUDIT RECORD ↗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.