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.
004 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
Antiquity1 ON THIS PAGE
100 BCE–600 CErange
ROUTE STAGEClassical and Ecclesiastical Latin record
humility
humilitās from lowness to virtue
The same Latin noun spans physical height, social rank, abjectness, and the later positive opposition to pride.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates cited Latin sense records rather than one datable semantic switch.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval3 ON THIS PAGE
950 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGENorthern France
humility
later 10th century–1400 Old French
French humilité carries the Christian virtue and abasement fields from Latin.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The range begins with CNRTL’s later-tenth-century lexical report and does not claim one exact borrowing year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEngland
humility
14th-century Middle English and English
Middle English humilite and reported humylitee attest the noun before the modern spelling.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The bounds preserve the source-reported century; the circa-1390 citation is evidence within it, not proof of the first use.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1380 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGEEngland
humiliation
late 14th-century Middle English
Chaucer’s humiliacioun occurs inside a humility passage before the separately reported English verb humiliate.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad range locates the edited Chaucer text; no manuscript or exact composition year was directly verified.
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.