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
Medieval2 ON THIS PAGE
500 CE–1500 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Latin Europe
legislation
Medieval Latin formation
Legislatio combines the law component with lātio, a bearing or proposing formation from ferre.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad interval includes the circa-1238 Medieval Latin attestation reported by CNRTL without inventing one point of formation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1372 CE–1374 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrance
legislation
1372–1374 French record
French législation is recorded for a body of laws and later law-making authority.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
CNRTL reports the 1372–74 record; the coordinate locates France, not one manuscript repository.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern2 ON THIS PAGE
1606 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
legislation
1606 English report
Merriam-Webster reports English legislation in 1606, earlier than the 1650s horizon in Etymonline.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The year is a secondary lexicographic report and remains disputed by another chronology.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1606 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
legislation
17th century–today
Legislation names law-making, enacted laws, and matters before legislative bodies.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins with the earliest reviewed secondary report, not a claim of coinage or uniform diffusion.
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.