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.
006 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 STAGEIndo-European comparative horizon
kin
*ǵenh₁- and suffixed zero grade
The reviewed trail begins in a reconstructed begetting and generation family whose derivatives name lineages, kinds, and kin groups.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the project’s comparative horizon, not a point homeland, first word, or biological population claim.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Antiquity3 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
kindred
*kunja- and *rēdan
Germanic prehistory supplies the kin base and the separately reconstructed condition or arrangement family later combined in English.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval brackets two reconstructed lineages; it does not date their later Old English compounding.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic and West Germanic linguistic horizon
kin
*kunja- through geminated *kunnj-
The lineage formation develops West Germanic consonant gemination; Runic kunni makes the doubled n visible before Old English records.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval brackets reconstructed development and a fourth- or fifth-century runic witness; it does not assign one exact year to every sound change.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English records
kin
cynn
Umlauted cynn carries kindred, race, people, tribe, family, lineage, generation, kind, gender, and progeny senses.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval is the conventional Old English period; the cited dictionary record is not a claim that every token spans it.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
1150 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMiddle English records
kin
kin, kyn, kinne, cunne, and related forms
A large spelling inventory preserves family, people, ancestry, relative, kind, and category senses while the modern form emerges.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The Middle English Dictionary supplies forms and dated quotations but not one simultaneous change across every dialect.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern1 ON THIS PAGE
1500 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
kin
kin as relatives, common ancestry, and kindred relation
The surviving noun narrows toward relatives and common ancestry; attributive adjective use is separately reported from 1597.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The modern-language anchor is conventional and does not assign exact dates to every semantic restriction or phrase.
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.