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
Prehistory2 ON THIS PAGE
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEIndo-European linguistic horizon
-rīx
*h₃reg̑- and lengthened *rēg-
The straight-and-direct family develops a ruler or king formation.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval marks the project’s comparative horizon; it is not a pinpointed homeland, event, or attested token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 BCE–800 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Celtic linguistic horizon
-rīx
*rīx-s
Celtic raises inherited *ē to *ī in the reconstructed king nominative.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Proto-Celtic and these bounds are reconstructed analytical horizons rather than directly witnessed coordinates.
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.