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
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
hetzen
*xatjanan
The Gothic, Old English, and Middle High German comparison supports a reconstructed verb, not a directly written Proto-Germanic token or single archaeological location.
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 ↗Medieval3 ON THIS PAGE
750 CE–1050 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld High German reconstruction horizon
hetzen
*hezzen
A projected High German bridge is useful for formal continuity but is explicitly starred in Bailey’s data and therefore receives no manuscript pin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The numeric bounds are the historical language period, not dates of a directly inspected token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1050 CE–1350 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle High German textual landscape
hetzen
hetzen / hatzen
Poetic and didactic records show dogs driven after quarry and people set against one another across the Middle High German record.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A language-period range; the selected dictionary citations are examples, not endpoints for the whole lexeme.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1650 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEarly New High German legal and polemical record
hetzen
hetzen / hessen / hittzen
Hunting law and sixteenth-century polemic preserve physical chase alongside transferred incitement.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A historical-language interval supported by dictionary-located records.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern1 ON THIS PAGE
1650 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German speech community
hetzen
hetzen
Standard German preserves chase, hurry, and hostile-agitation senses. A global language community is not reduced to one map pin.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The range marks the Modern German stage rather than uninterrupted evidence for every sense in every year.
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.