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.
0024 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
Antiquity4 ON THIS PAGE
500 BCE–200 CErange
ROUTE STAGEProto-Germanic linguistic horizon
king
*kunja- plus *-inga-/*-unga-
A lineage noun and person-forming suffix produce the reconstructed king title; Germanic contact also lends an archaic form into Finnic.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The broad language interval does not date one formation or borrowing event; EWA supplies the derivation and borrowing direction.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGERoman world
conscious
Latin antiquity
Latin cōnscius names knowing, awareness, and knowledge shared with another person.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–1150 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English textual traditions
hatian
hatian directed at persons, enemies, vices, and deeds
Gospel, Pastoral Care, poetic, legal, and other edited records preserve the verb across different objects and contexts.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
A language-period range; none of the located records is promoted as the first token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗450 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGECross-Germanic semantic comparison
Feind
German Feind beside English fiend
German keeps ordinary enemy central; the English cognate foregrounds demon and vicious-person senses. Cognacy does not force identical daughter-language histories.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
This is a comparative semantic stage across languages, not a single migration route or coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval9 ON THIS PAGE
780 CE–850 CErange
ROUTE STAGEKhwārizmian name horizon
algorism
approximately 780–850
The personal nisba al-Khwārizmī identifies the scholar through Khwārizm; this is an onomastic and regional stage, not a reconstructed lexical root.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the ninth-century scholar's lifetime horizon rather than the coinage of the place name.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE–1199 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval Latin Europe
algorism
12th century
The Latinized personal name becomes algorismus in arithmetic transmission.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The century follows the reviewed Latin arithmetic-text horizon without asserting one first manuscript.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1175 CE–1225 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEOld Norse homily manuscript tradition
hata
Holm perg 15 4° folio 89v, c1200
A directly inspected leaf writes hata in a command that contrasts love with hating no person. The scan establishes a textual object, not one geographic birthplace.
1200 CE–1299 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-speaking world
person
person, 13th century
The individual-human noun is recorded in English and later spreads globally.
1284 CE–1546 CErange
ROUTE STAGEFrench candidat and learned circulation
candidate
1284 French record; 1546 public-office sense
CNRTL records French candidat in 1284 in an elite-soldier sense and in 1546 for a person seeking public office, with later academic use. This documents European circulation without claiming French was necessarily the direct donor to English.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The 1284–1546 interval connects two explicitly dated French records with different senses. It is a documentary range, not the full life span of French candidat or a claim of continuous unchanged meaning.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
intellect
14th century–today
Intellect names a faculty, an individual capacity, and a person of notable reasoning ability.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval begins at the reviewed English horizon without claiming uniform global adoption.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
calculator
14th century–today
Calculator now names both a calculating person and, predominantly, a mechanical, electronic, or software device.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reported English century and does not date every later device class.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEMedieval England
calculator
14th-century English record
Middle English calkelatour names a person who counts or computes.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds encode the reported century, not a directly inspected earliest object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1350 CE–1604 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval and Early Modern English learned vocabulary
etymologist
late 14th century–1604
The base etymology precedes the specialist title; productive -ist creates a person-label in English.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The lower bound is the reviewed base-noun horizon, not a date for etymologist.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern7 ON THIS PAGE
1600 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
candidate
1600 English first-known-use horizon
English candidate borrows Latin candidātus for a person seeking office. Merriam-Webster reports 1600 as the first-known-use horizon.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1600 is the reviewed English first-known-use year, not a claim that the borrowing process or every occurrence began at one instant.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1604 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
etymologist
current specialist title
Etymologist remains the person-label for a specialist in word histories.
1650 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German-language continuum
Feind
Feind as personal, collective, military, and ideological opponent
Duden documents the contemporary sense range while DWDS keeps the inherited opponent or adversary center visible.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
German is pluricentric and geographically distributed, so the modern language is not reduced to one map pin.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1650 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German usage
hassen
hassen as hatred and strong aversion
Duden separates person-directed hatred from strong aversion toward things and actions; DWDS supplies modern literary usage. The record is linguistic, not one geographic point.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The range models the New High German continuum through the current reviewed dictionaries.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1650 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern German usage
hazzōn
hassen
Modern hassen centers person-directed hatred and strong aversion, while its dictionaries retain the older action history. This stage is linguistic rather than a single point on a map.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The range models New High German continuity through the currently reviewed dictionaries.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1687 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language hotel senses
hotel
1687 lodging establishment onward
Hotel continues as the English term for an establishment offering lodging and often meals, entertainment, or personal services.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the cited 1687 English first-use horizon. It does not assign every later service or institutional extension to that year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1700 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
fēond
modern fiend
The literal enemy or foe sense is obsolete, while Devil, demon, wicked-person, harmful-thing, and later figurative uses continue in English.
Modern4 ON THIS PAGE
1800 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
fiend
modern fiend
The literal enemy or foe sense is obsolete, while Devil, demon, wicked-person, harmful-thing, and later figurative uses continue in global English.
1800 CE–2026 CErange
ROUTE STAGEGlobal contemporary English
friend
friend across interpersonal and specialized senses
OED includes companion, ally, supporter, Quaker, climbing device, and social-network contact. Contemporary English is distributed and not reduced to one map point.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A modern semantic continuum, not proof that every sense is equally common.
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.
1988 CE–1992 CErange
ROUTE STAGEModern Danish corpus
fjende
1988–1992 dated examples
DDO documents personal, political, and figurative enemy uses in dated modern examples.
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.