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.
003 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 linguistic horizon
rēx
*h₃reg̑- to lengthened *rēg-
The straight-and-direct family develops the reconstructed ruler or king grade.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval marks the project’s comparative horizon; it is not a dated king title, homeland point, or social institution.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Antiquity1 ON THIS PAGE
700 BCE–700 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin linguistic world
rēx
rēg- across the rēx, rēgis paradigm
Latin preserves the long vowel of the king grade while case endings make the final stem consonant alternately visible as g and x.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The language interval is broad and conventional; it does not claim one first utterance or map coordinate.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
1300 CE–1499 CErange
ROUTE STAGEMedieval French and English transmission
rēx
rēgālis to royal and regal
The Latin king noun supplies a derived adjective whose Romance and English routes produce two separate modern descendants.
2 EVIDENCE LINKS
The interval combines the source-reported fourteenth-century horizon for royal and fifteenth-century horizon for regal; it is not one borrowing event.
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.