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
Antiquity30 ON THIS PAGE
750 BCE–650 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEHomeric Greek epic tradition
ἔτυμος
late 8th–7th century BCE textual horizon
LSJ reports ἔτυμος in Homeric passages as true or real.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is a conventional textual horizon and does not date a surviving manuscript object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–650 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEHomeric Greek epic tradition
ἐτεός
late 8th–7th century BCE textual horizon
Cunliffe records ἐτεός as true and really across the Iliad and Odyssey.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is a conventional textual horizon, not a dated manuscript token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–650 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEHomeric Greek epic tradition
ἐτήτυμος
late 8th–7th century BCE textual horizon
LSJ reports ἐτήτυμος in Homer, Hesiod, and later poetic texts.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is a conventional textual horizon, not a surviving-manuscript date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–300 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek poetic usage
ἐτήτυμος
Archaic–Classical record
The reduplicated adjective remains a poetic way to say true.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds summarize the cited literary record rather than a coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–300 BCErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἐτήτυμος
Archaic and Classical Greek poetic record
true
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
sāl
antiquity
salt
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
quattuor
Latin antiquity
four
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
lēx
Latin antiquity
law, statute, rule, agreement
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
legere
Latin antiquity
to gather, select, choose; to read
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
ferre
Latin antiquity
to bear, carry, bring, report, or propose
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
ēmovēre
Latin antiquity
to move out, remove, displace, or agitate
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
movēre
Latin antiquity
to move
700 BCE–500 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
ex- / ē-
Latin antiquity
out; away from
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
λόγος
Ancient Greek
word, speech, account, reckoning, reason
700 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek speech communities
dialogue
Ancient Greek record
Dialogos, dialegesthai, dia-, and legein create the through-speaking and conversation family.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the reviewed Ancient Greek lexical horizon rather than one first utterance.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek theatre
prologue
Ancient Greek record
Prologos combines a before element with logos for the opening speech before the chorus.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval locates the reviewed Greek theatrical and lexical horizon rather than one first performance.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek linguistic world
arithmetic
antiquity
Arithmos names number and arithmetike names the counting art.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval locates the attested Greek lexical stage rather than a first coinage.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
κάχληξ
Ancient Greek
a shingle or pebble on a shoreline
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
διάλογος
Ancient Greek
conversation, dialogue, or discourse
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
διαλέγεσθαι
Ancient Greek
to converse or discuss; a formation with dia- and legein
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
πρόλογος
Ancient Greek
speech before; portion of a play before the chorus
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
διά-
Ancient Greek
through, across, or between as a prefix
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
πρό-
Ancient Greek
before or in front as a prefix
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἀριθμητική (τέχνη)
Ancient Greek
the counting art; arithmetic
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
ἀριθμός
Ancient Greek
number, amount, or counting
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMAncient Greek
εἰκών
Ancient Greek
representation, image, or likeness
700 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin and Late Latin linguistic record
humiliate
humus through humiliāre
Physical ground and lowness, social lowliness, and the causative verb coexist across Latin stages.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates attested lexical stages rather than one coinage or semantic-change event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek linguistic record
-logy
-logiā, logos, and legein
The bound formation belongs to a dense Greek family of word, speech, discourse, account, reckoning, and speaking.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the named Ancient Greek record, not the first creation of the formation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
rēgula
Latin
straightedge, ruler, rule
700 BCE–600 CErange
CANONICAL FORMLatin
rēgālis
Latin
kingly, royal
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.