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.
002 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 modern2 ON THIS PAGE
1540 CE–1560 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEFrench-language record
étymologique
c. 1550
CNRTL reports noms étymologiques in Bonivard for compound names said to reveal their true sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A twenty-year interval encodes the source’s approximate c. 1550 label rather than false exactness.
AUDIT RECORD ↗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 ↗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.