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.
005 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
Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
BEFORE 1500 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEAnglo-French and Middle English
collect
medieval
Prayer and accumulation senses arrive through related but distinct transmission histories.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The two reviewed English transmission histories are attested before the twelfth century for the prayer noun and in the fifteenth century for the verb. The numeric layer exposes only their shared upper bound.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern3 ON THIS PAGE
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
fijan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
The codex was in Emperor Rudolph II’s Prague collection by 1600 and was taken by Swedish forces in 1648.
1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
fijands
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
The codex was in Emperor Rudolph II’s Prague collection by 1600 and was taken by Swedish forces in 1648.
1650 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German-language continuum
Feind
Feind as personal, collective, military, and ideological opponent
Duden documents the contemporary sense range while DWDS keeps the inherited opponent or adversary center visible.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
German is pluricentric and geographically distributed, so the modern language is not reduced to one map pin.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Modern1 ON THIS PAGE
1924 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGESwedish-language continuum
fiende
current fiende and historical dictionary record
SAOB and SO document continuation into modern Swedish, with ordinary enemy or opponent central and military, collective, and figurative uses available.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Dictionary publication and current-use horizon, not a claim of dialectal uniformity.
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.