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.
008 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
heti
qualified *ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal, not a word tied to one archaeological site.
Antiquity2 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatis
*hatiz-
The Gothic noun, i-stem Old English hete and Old Saxon heti, and the wider Germanic cognate set support a comparative noun base without licensing one archaeological point or directly written Proto-Germanic token.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not an attested word date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
heti
*hatiz- and competing inherited stem analyses
Cross-Germanic daughter evidence supports the family while the i-stem and es/os-stem descriptions remain visibly distinct.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
Comparative bounds, not a directly dated spoken token or single coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval5 ON THIS PAGE
830 CE–840 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Saxon Heliand textual horizon
heti
work created circa 830–840; place of poetic origin unknown
Heliand 1322 supplies one lexical occurrence transmitted by three reported manuscript witnesses. A text date is not a manuscript-copy date.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A work-level dating range distinct from the dates of the surviving objects.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–899 CErange
ROUTE STAGECorvey catalog attribution
heti
Cgm 25, second half of the ninth century
The directly inspected Munich witness visibly preserves heti at Heliand 1322. The point represents the catalog attribution, not the birthplace of the lexeme.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A cataloged manuscript-production interval represented by a bounded approximate point.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–999 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Heliand manuscript transmission
heti
Cotton C and Vatican V readings
Köbler reports the same Heliand 1322 spelling in C and V, but neither token was directly inspected and no single shared production point is invented.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conservative manuscript-transmission band; individual object dates and places are not collapsed.
AUDIT RECORD ↗850 CE–999 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Saxon Genesis and Saxon Confession records
heti
dative heti and genitive hetias
The Genesis object remains unresolved here; the Academy source key dates the Saxon Confession to the tenth century. The two records are not treated as one manuscript event.
1200 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle Low German linguistic continuum
heti
hāte and hāt
Köbler records the later Low German continuation meaning hate or enmity. The stage is a language continuum rather than one travel event.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Conventional Middle Low German continuity, not one exact transfer date.
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.