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A daughter of Proto-Indo-European; the cognates below descend down this branch and meet the other branches a", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the Indo-European family (comparative method)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_232eb0029ad3", "title": "Grimm's Law — sound change without exceptions, and the exception that deepened it", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Grimm (1822): the PIE voiceless stops became Germanic fricatives, systematically — *p -> f\n(pater->father, ped->foot, piscis->fish), *t -> th (tres->three), *k -> h (cornu->horn,\ncanis->hound, centum-", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Concordance assay — 2026-07-09", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_floor_indo_european", "title": "Indo-European — chains from the proto-floor, cognates where two trees meet", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Indo-European family as a floor on the one map: Proto-Indo-European is the floor, the daughter BRANCHES (Germanic, Italic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, Celtic, Balto-Slavic) are the trees, and a COGNAT", "authority_tier": "engine_derived", "source": "Narrow Highway — the Indo-European floor (comparative method)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_indo_germanic", "title": "indo-germanic", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-germanic: etymology (Webster 1913) — a.: [Indo- + Germanic.]. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), public domain.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), Project Gutenberg eBook #29765 — public domain", "readable": true, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_word_germanic_language", "title": "germanic language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "germanic language: (noun) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic — syn: Germanic", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "WordNet 3.0, Princeton University (WordNet License)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_word_germanic", "title": "germanic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "germanic: (noun) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; members that are spoken currently fall into two major groups: Scandinavian and West Germanic — syn: Germanic language · (adjective) ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "WordNet 3.0, Princeton University (WordNet License)", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_cognate_dog", "title": "hound — a cognate across the family (PIE *kwon-)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word for 'dog, hound', one etymon descending down several branches and meeting at the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *kwon-. Reflexes (attested): italic: canis; hellenic: kyon; indo-iranian: sv", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the comparative method; cognate sets of Indo-European", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_cognate_three", "title": "three — a cognate across the family (PIE *treyes)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word for 'three', one etymon descending down several branches and meeting at the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *treyes. Reflexes (attested): italic: tres; hellenic: treis; indo-iranian: trayas", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the comparative method; cognate sets of Indo-European", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_cognate_father", "title": "father — a cognate across the family (PIE *ph2ter-)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word for 'father', one etymon descending down several branches and meeting at the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *ph2ter-. Reflexes (attested): italic: pater; hellenic: pater; indo-iranian: pit", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the comparative method; cognate sets of Indo-European", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_cognate_mother", "title": "mother — a cognate across the family (PIE *mehter-)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word for 'mother', one etymon descending down several branches and meeting at the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *mehter-. Reflexes (attested): italic: mater; hellenic: meter; indo-iranian: mat", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the comparative method; cognate sets of Indo-European", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_cognate_hundred", "title": "hundred — a cognate across the family (PIE *kmtom)", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The word for 'hundred', one etymon descending down several branches and meeting at the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *kmtom. Reflexes (attested): italic: centum; hellenic: hekaton; indo-iranian: s", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "the comparative method; cognate sets of Indo-European", "readable": false, "generated": false}, {"id": "card_src_etym_germanic", "title": "germanic", "shelf": "etymology", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "germanic: etymology (Webster 1913) — a.: [L. Germanicus: cf. F. germanique. See German, n.]. 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