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
Antiquity1 ON THIS PAGE
300 CE–399 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEGothic translation tradition
hatizōn
hatizōn represented by hatizoþ in John 7:23
The fourth-century translation selects the class-II verb for Greek χολᾶτε. The translation horizon is distinct from the age of the surviving manuscript and does not prove when the verb was first formed.
3 EVIDENCE LINKS
The century dates the Gothic translation tradition, not the exact first use or derivation.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern4 ON THIS PAGE
1565 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
select
1565 adjective horizon
English select is first reported in 1565 as an adjective for something chosen from a group.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
1565 is the reviewed first-known-use year for the adjective, not the date of every borrowing occurrence.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1566 CEexact
ROUTE STAGEEngland
select
1566 verb horizon
The English verb select is reported from 1566 for choosing from a number or group.
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 ↗1600 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEnglish-language candidate senses
candidate
1600 office-seeker onward; later extensions
The office-seeker remains central, while candidate expands to people nominated or qualified for awards, jobs, degrees, surgery, and other possible selection or treatment.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval begins with the reviewed 1600 office-seeker horizon. It does not assign that onset to every later institutional, academic, medical, or general suitability sense.
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.