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.
009 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
Antiquity3 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hettan
*xatjanan
Gothic hatjan, Old English hettan, and Middle High German hetzen support a comparative verb, but no single archaeological point or directly written Proto-Germanic token is claimed.
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatjan
*xatjanan
Gothic hatjan, Old English hettan, and Middle High German hetzen support a comparative class-I weak verb without licensing one archaeological point or directly written Proto-Germanic token.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not an attested word date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 CE–399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEFourth-century Gothic translation tradition
hatjan
hatjan represented by hatjandam
The surviving verse belongs to the Gothic Gospel translation tradition associated with Wulfila. The fourth-century translation date is distinct from the age of the surviving manuscript.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The century dates the translation tradition, not the exact moment this lexical choice was coined or first spoken.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
500 CE–525 CErange
ROUTE STAGERavenna
hatjan
early-sixth-century Codex Argenteus
The purple-vellum Gospel codex preserving Matthew 5:44 was probably copied in Ravenna at the beginning of the sixth century.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval operationalizes the official early-sixth-century dating; 510 is only a representative attestation year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern5 ON THIS PAGE
1500 CE–1599 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEWerden, Ruhr district
hatjan
sixteenth-century manuscript custody
The codex was known in the sixteenth century at a Benedictine monastery in Werden. This is the route of the evidence object, not proof that spoken Gothic traveled with it.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history supplies a century-level custody horizon rather than exact arrival and departure years.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE–1648 CErange
ROUTE STAGEPrague
hatjan
imperial custody by 1600 to 1648
By 1600 the codex was in Prague in the hands of Emperor Rudolph II; Swedish forces took it when they stormed the city in 1648.
1648 CE–1654 CErange
ROUTE STAGEStockholm
hatjan
Swedish royal custody after 1648
The codex reached Stockholm as spoil of war and entered Queen Christina’s library before passing to Isaac Vossius.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound uses the queen’s abdication as the transition horizon described by the official history.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1654 CE–1669 CErange
ROUTE STAGEHolland custody
hatjan
Isaac Vossius and acquisition by De la Gardie
Vossius took the manuscript to Holland; Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie later bought it and presented it to Uppsala University.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The official history names Holland but does not reduce this custody stage to one city or exact transaction year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1669 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEUppsala University Library
hatjan
custody since 1669
De la Gardie presented the codex to Uppsala University in 1669. The modern library and digital editions expose the folio that preserves hatjandam.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
This stage traces evidence preservation and access, not continued Gothic speech.
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.