{"query": "Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed mother tongue", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_13147996cd2f", "title": "Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed mother tongue", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Roughly half of humanity speaks a descendant — English, Spanish, Hindi, Russian, Persian,\nand hundreds more. Yet PIE was never written: it is RECONSTRUCTED, every form marked with a *\nto say 'inferred"}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_european", "title": "indo-european", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-european: (noun) a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European — syn: Aryan · (noun) the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of south"}, {"id": "card_src_word_proto_indo_european", "title": "proto-indo european", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "proto-indo european: (noun) a prehistoric unrecorded language that was the ancestor of all Indo-European languages — syn: PIE"}, {"id": "card_src_word_aryan", "title": "aryan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "aryan: (noun) (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew) · (noun) a member of the prehistoric people who spoke Proto-Indo European — syn: Indo-European · (adject"}, {"id": "card_c_60d1ae195060", "title": "The evolution of language — descent traced b ↔ Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed moth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "Proto-Indo-European itself is RECONSTRUCTED — every form marked with * to say inferred, not attested (a hypothesis, not a sealed fact)  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_n_dcb1a67c26e8", "title": "The evolution of language — descent traced by regular law", "shelf": "science", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Languages descend like living lineages, and the descent is RECOVERABLE — the comparative\nmethod is one of the humanities' deterministic sciences. English 'father' descends from\nProto-Indo-European *ph"}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_european_language", "title": "indo-european language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-european language: (noun) the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia — syn: Indo-European, Indo-Hittite"}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_aryan", "title": "indo-aryan", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-aryan: (noun) a branch of the Indo-Iranian family of languages — syn: Indic · (adjective) of or relating to the former Indo-European people — syn: Indo-European, Aryan"}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_germanic", "title": "indo-germanic", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-germanic: (adjective) of or relating to the Indo-European language family — syn: Indo-European"}, {"id": "card_src_taxon_39534", "title": "Sansevieria trifasciata — mother-in-law's tongue", "shelf": "taxonomy", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "mother-in-law's tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata) — a species. In the tree of life under Sansevieria. Also known as: mother-in-law's tongue, snake plant."}, {"id": "card_src_book_686", "title": "The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992 — European Union", "shelf": "gutenberg", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The Treaty of the European Union, Maastricht Treaty, 7th February, 1992, by European Union. Subjects: European federation; Europe -- Economic integration; European Union. Read the full text (public do"}, {"id": "card_src_word_mother_in_law_s_tongue", "title": "mother-in-law's tongue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "mother-in-law's tongue: (noun) stemless plant having narrow rigid leaves often cultivated as a houseplant — syn: snake plant, Sansevieria trifasciata · (noun) an evergreen plant with large showy dark "}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_hittite", "title": "indo-hittite", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-hittite: (noun) the family of languages that by 1000 BC were spoken throughout Europe and in parts of southwestern and southern Asia — syn: Indo-European, Indo-European language"}, {"id": "card_c_7106b3d05c07", "title": "The linguistic clock — the comparative metho ↔ Proto-Indo-European — the reconstructed moth", "shelf": "connections", "surface": null, "snippet": "the spread of Indo-European — English to Hindi to Persian — maps a migration as surely as a haplogroup does.  — a concord the card itself states; mined + verified."}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_iranian", "title": "indo-iranian", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-iranian: (noun) the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups — syn: Indo-Iranian language"}, {"id": "card_src_word_indo_iranian_language", "title": "indo-iranian language", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "indo-iranian language: (noun) the branch of the Indo-European family of languages including the Indic and Iranian language groups — syn: Indo-Iranian"}, {"id": "card_src_taxon_1156139", "title": "Scolecenchelys gymnota — Indo-Pacific shorttail conger", "shelf": "taxonomy", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Indo-Pacific shorttail conger (Scolecenchelys gymnota) — a species. In the tree of life under Scolecenchelys. Also known as: Indo-Pacific shorttail conger, Indo-Pacific slender worm-eel."}, {"id": "card_src_word_proto", "title": "proto", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "proto: (adjective) indicating the first or earliest or original — syn: proto(a)"}, {"id": "card_src_word_mother_tongue", "title": "mother tongue", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "mother tongue: (noun) one's native language; the language learned by children and passed from one generation to the next — syn: maternal language, first language"}, {"id": "card_src_lang_iris1253", "title": "Irish (gle) — Indo-European", "shelf": "languages", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Irish, a language of the Indo-European family (Eurasia). 69 phonemes: 45 consonants, 24 vowels, 0 tones. ISO 639-3: gle. Glottocode iris1253."}]}