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
Early modern3 ON THIS PAGE
1600 CE–1699 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEXiamen, Fujian
tea
Southern Min contact era
The te-type form associated with Amoy/Xiamen enters the Dutch maritime network.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Dutch contact and maritime diffusion are encoded only at seventeenth-century precision.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1600 CE–1699 CEcentury
ROUTE STAGEDutch maritime network
tea
17th century
Dutch thee spreads through European commerce and later colonial routes.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
Dutch contact and maritime diffusion are encoded only at seventeenth-century precision.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1655 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEEngland
tea
1655 onward
The English tea form is lexicographically reported by 1655.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The English tea stage begins with the reviewed 1655 first-known-use year and remains open into current usage.
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.