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
Medieval3 ON THIS PAGE
800 CE–1100 CErange
ROUTE STAGEOld English written record, witness locations unresolved
fēogan
poetic and Psalm examples
Bosworth–Toller locates ten edited occurrences, but this dossier did not inspect their manuscript objects or reduce their copying histories to one route.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A conservative written-record interval; individual witnesses require object-level review before tighter dates or map points are justified.
AUDIT RECORD ↗BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEEngland
ten
recorded before the 12th century
Merriam-Webster reports English ten before the twelfth century, retaining the inherited Germanic numeral.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes the dictionary’s “before the 12th century” convention; it is not an exact coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗1100 CE →open
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
ten
inherited word to the present
The cardinal number persists while noun, rating, money, and idiomatic uses accumulate.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The open interval represents continuing English use after the medieval horizon, not the date of every later specialized 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.