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
Antiquity2 ON THIS PAGE
700 BCE–700 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGreek and Roman linguistic worlds
icon
antiquity–Late Latin
Greek eikōn “image, likeness” passes into Late Latin īcōn.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the attested Greek and Latin lexical stages rather than a single borrowing event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗200 BCE–1600 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman and Francophone transmission
emoticon
Latin antiquity–16th century
Latin emovere “move out” develops through Old and Middle French movement and agitation vocabulary.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval contains the cited Latin, twelfth-century Old French, and sixteenth-century French stages without pretending to date each transition exactly.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval2 ON THIS PAGE
960 CE–961 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic world
fjándi
source-reported 960–961 enemy records
Lexicon Poeticum places fjándi in tenth-century poetry as an ordinary enemy noun, while warning that dates require checking.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Source-reported composition dates under an explicit project disclaimer, not manuscript-production dates.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1400 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse poetic transmission
hata
damage, destruction, haters, and gold imagery
Lexicon Poeticum exposes multiple poetic constructions and dates while warning that its concordance has not been reviewed.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A source-reported poetic horizon whose individual dates require checking.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern2 ON THIS PAGE
1572 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
icon
1572 English record
Merriam-Webster reports icon in English in 1572 in the image or likeness family.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1572 is a lexicographic first-known-use report, not a directly inspected object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1579 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
emoticon
1579 English emotion record
Merriam-Webster reports emotion in English first in the disturbance or agitation sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1579 is a lexicographic first-known-use report, not proof of first speech.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Modern3 ON THIS PAGE
1833 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEastern Christian and English religious discourse
icon
1833–today
The Eastern Church sacred-image sense becomes explicit in English historical reporting.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The opening year follows Etymonline's semantic-history report and does not date the older Greek religious practice itself.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1982 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal computing and culture
icon
1982–today
Icon expands into computer-display symbols while personal and cultural representative senses continue.
1987 CE →open
ROUTE STAGENetworked English communication
emoticon
1987–today
Emoticon names ASCII and keyboard-character expressions; Unicode distinguishes this English compound from Japanese emoji.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The open interval begins with Merriam-Webster's reported first known use and preserves the later 1992 source report as a dispute.
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.