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.
005 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
Antiquity2 ON THIS PAGE
300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin-speaking Mediterranean
candid
Latin antiquity
Candēre and candidus name shining, brightness, and whiteness.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The broad interval locates the reviewed Latin lexical horizon, not one moment of semantic innovation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–500 CErange
ROUTE STAGELatin-speaking Mediterranean
candor
Latin antiquity
Latin candor names brightness, radiance, whiteness, and favorable disposition.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval locates the reviewed Latin horizon rather than one first occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Medieval3 ON THIS PAGE
BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
right
before 12th century–today
Right remains a dense cluster of correct, just, suitable, straight, and directional meanings.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century, not a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
candor
14th century–today
The moral sense of frank and honest expression becomes dominant while the brightness history remains recoverable.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reported English century and does not date the completion of the semantic shift.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1300 CE–1399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEEngland
candor
14th-century English record
Candor is first reported in English in its brightness or unstained-purity family.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds encode the reported century, not a directly inspected earliest object.
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.