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
fjende
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
Antiquity1 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
fjende
*fi(j)ēn- and lexicalized *fi(j)and-
Cross-branch evidence places the hate verb and enemy formation before the written Germanic traditions.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
1100 CE–1300 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Danish textual horizon
fjende
fiende known since 1100–1300
Gammeldansk Ordbog supplies the broad Danish record without one exposed earliest witness.
Early modern2 ON THIS PAGE
1550 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater North Germanic continuation
fjándi
Icelandic fjandi, Swedish fiende, and Danish fjende
The inherited noun continues with different branch-specific semantic centers; no daughter language is treated as the original.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A continuation horizon, not a single borrowing, coordinate, or semantic event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1695 CE–1742 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly-modern Danish textual world
fjende
1695–1742 printed records and form variation
ODS and Holbergordbog expose fienden, Fiende, Fiænde, Finde, Fînde, Fiend, and competing syllable patterns.
Modern2 ON THIS PAGE
1988 CE–1992 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern Danish corpus
fjende
1988–1992 dated examples
DDO documents personal, political, and figurative enemy uses in dated modern examples.
1992 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGECurrent Danish
fjende
dictionary state through 2026
Current grammar, two pronunciations, derivatives, compounds, and sense distinctions remain public in DDO.
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.