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.
008 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
Antiquity6 ON THIS PAGE
750 BCE–650 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEHomeric Greek epic tradition
ἔτυμος
late 8th–7th century BCE textual horizon
LSJ reports ἔτυμος in Homeric passages as true or real.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is a conventional textual horizon and does not date a surviving manuscript object.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–650 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEHomeric Greek epic tradition
ἐτεός
late 8th–7th century BCE textual horizon
Cunliffe records ἐτεός as true and really across the Iliad and Odyssey.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The interval is a conventional textual horizon, not a dated manuscript token.
AUDIT RECORD ↗750 BCE–300 BCErange
ROUTE STAGEAncient Greek poetic usage
ἐτήτυμος
Archaic–Classical record
The reduplicated adjective remains a poetic way to say true.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds summarize the cited literary record rather than a coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Greek learned usage
ἔτυμος
Hellenistic and Roman-period records
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον develops the technical sense “true sense according to origin.”
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The bounds cover the later authors cited by LSJ rather than one coinage event.
AUDIT RECORD ↗300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Ancient Greek learned usage
etymon
Hellenistic and Roman periods
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον denotes the true sense of a word according to its origin.
300 BCE–300 CErange
ROUTE STAGELater Ancient Greek learned usage
étymon
Hellenistic and Roman periods
The substantivized neuter ἔτυμον denotes the true sense of a word according to its origin.
Medieval1 ON THIS PAGE
BEFORE 1100 CEbefore
ROUTE STAGEGlobal English
true
before 12th century–today
True retains faithful senses beside factual, accurate, and conforming senses.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
The upper bound encodes before the twelfth century and does not claim a coinage year.
AUDIT RECORD ↗Early modern1 ON THIS PAGE
1540 CE–1560 CEcirca
ROUTE STAGEFrench-language record
étymologique
c. 1550
CNRTL reports noms étymologiques in Bonivard for compound names said to reveal their true sense.
1 EVIDENCE LINK
A twenty-year interval encodes the source’s approximate c. 1550 label rather than false exactness.
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.