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.
0038 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
Prehistory16 ON THIS PAGE
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīant
proposed *peh₁- comparison
Kroonen's deeper route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjándi
proposed *peh₁- comparison
Kroonen’s deeper route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjende
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīēn
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fjá
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
cais
*kad- and *kad-t/si-
The deepest displayed route is a cross-branch comparative proposal. No archaeological point, single speech community, or original love-versus-hate meaning is asserted.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
fīunt
proposed *peh₁- comparison
The deepest route is a comparative linguistic proposal, not a word recovered at one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
hatōn
qualified *ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal, not a word tied to one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European linguistic horizon
heti
qualified *ḱeh₂d- and *ḱh₂d-es- comparison
The deepest displayed route is a comparative proposal, not a word tied to one archaeological site.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European bore-prick horizon
hōti
Köbler and Pokorny *kʷē̆d- / *kʷō̆d- lane
One competing route connects the adjective through threat and Germanic whet or incite comparanda. A reconstructed linguistic horizon is not one archaeological point.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEDisputed Indo-European comparative horizon
κῆδος
*ḱh₂d-es- and *ḱeh₂d-
Greek care and grief are compared with Celtic, Germanic, Italic, and other material, but the reconstruction is not one archaeological place or attested speech event.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
friend
*prī-
American Heritage places the Germanic friend and free family under a reconstructed Indo-European root. This is not one archaeological site, written token, or recoverable friendship institution.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
Freund
*prī-
The shared friend-family route reaches a proposed comparative root, not one archaeological site, written token, or recoverable institution.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
vriend
*prī-
The shared friend-family route reaches a proposed comparison, not one archaeological place or directly attested proto-word.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
frændi
*prī-
American Heritage places the shared Germanic friend and free family under a reconstructed Indo-European root. This is not a written token, recoverable institution, or single archaeological coordinate.
4500 BCE–2500 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEProposed Indo-European comparative horizon
frēond
*prī-
American Heritage places the shared Germanic friend and free family under a proposed Indo-European root. This is not a written token, recoverable institution, or single archaeological point.
Antiquity6 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hete
*hatiz-
The reconstructed noun is supported by attested Germanic comparanda; no archaeological point or single tribal speech community is asserted.
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 ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatis
*hatiz-
The Gothic noun, i-stem Old English hete and Old Saxon heti, and the wider Germanic cognate set support a comparative noun base without licensing one archaeological point or directly written Proto-Germanic token.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not an attested word date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
hatizōn
*hatiz- noun family
The inherited noun family is reconstructed from attested Germanic comparanda. No archaeological point, single tribe, or attested Proto-Germanic denominative *hatizōn is asserted.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A conventional comparative-linguistic interval, not a directly dated token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval7 ON THIS PAGE
1000 CE–1099 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEOld Turkic textual record
kayık
11th-century kayguk
The philological study reports kayguk in the eleventh-century Turkic record.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century is source-reported; SET-U has not directly inspected the underlying manuscript object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEngland and global technical culture
logic
12th century–today
logic expands from scholastic discipline to everyday reasoning and computing.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
English logic is attested from the twelfth-century first-known-use horizon and remains current; later reasoning and computing senses are not assigned separate invented start dates.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1200 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGELatin and medieval French scholarship
logic
antiquity–12th century
The name of the logical art travels through Latin and French teaching traditions.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The reviewed Greek-to-Latin-to-French chain reaches English by the twelfth century. The numeric layer encodes only that upper bound, not a fabricated ancient start year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1200 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language guest senses
guest
13th c. core noun onward; later extensions
The hospitality recipient remains the core English guest, with later customer, program, performance, biological, and material-science extensions.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the source-reported thirteenth-century core noun. It does not assign that onset to every later extended sense.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language host senses
host
14th c. core noun onward; later extensions
The receiving-host noun continues from the fourteenth century and later extends to event venues, media presenters, biological hosts, and networked computers. The route does not pretend those later senses share one onset.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the source-reported fourteenth-century core noun. It does not date the separate later event, media, biological, or computing branches.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1400 CE–1499 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
regulate
15th century–today
Regulate broadens across law, administration, mechanisms, rates, and biological control.
1490 CE–1504 CErange
ROUTE STAGEWest Lauwers Old Frisian manuscript tradition
hatia
Codex Roorda, 1490-1504
Jurisprudentia Frisica supplies three source-reported forms across legal adversity and theological hate contexts.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The range is the corpus manuscript date, not a semantic start or end date.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern1 ON THIS PAGE
1566 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
select
1566 onward
Select continues in ordinary choice and develops technical, computational, institutional, and biological uses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval tracks the English verb after its reviewed horizon; later specialized senses are not all dated to 1566.
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.