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.
007 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
Prehistory1 ON THIS PAGE
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīant
proposed *peh₁- comparison
Kroonen's deeper route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
Antiquity1 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
fīant
*fi(j)ēn- and lexicalized *fi(j)and-
Cross-branch evidence places the hate verb and lexicalized enemy formation before the separate written Germanic traditions.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval5 ON THIS PAGE
750 CE–799 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld High German textual world
Feind
fīant and fījant from the eighth century
DWDS/Pfeifer dates the forms to the eighth century; Duden prints fīand and identifies the hating-participle analysis.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The century is source-reported and does not identify one manuscript, first speaker, or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 CE–799 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld High German textual world
fīant
fīant and fījant reported from the eighth century
DWDS/Pfeifer supplies a century-level headword horizon; AWB documents the later corpus in extensive detail.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A source-reported century, not one first token, manuscript, speaker, or map point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗800 CE–1050 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld High German formulaic record
fīant
fîant uuesan, fîant mahhôn, and zi fîante tuon
AWB groups fixed phrases in which the old participial character may still shine through. They span multiple works and are not one innovation event.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A corpus interval for multiple source-reported records, not a first-use claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗825 CE–850 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld High German Tatian tradition
fīant
fiiant in T 72,2, 76,4, and 196,8
The Tatian records show ordinary enemy, parable enemy, Devil interpretation, and plural enemies. The text tradition is not reduced to a single manuscript-production coordinate.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conservative text-tradition interval; no manuscript object was directly inspected.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEHigh German semantic continuation
fīant
Middle High German vîant to modern German Feind
The inherited enemy noun continues while the specific Old High German fixed formulas are not projected unchanged into every later stage.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A daughter-language continuation horizon rather than a single movement or coordinate.
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.