{"id": "card_floor_indo_european", "kind": "note", "title": "Indo-European — chains from the proto-floor, cognates where two trees meet", "body": "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 COGNATE is the confluence - one word descending down several branches and meeting at its proto-form (English father and Latin pater meet at *ph2ter). The chain's rule is the regular sound law: Grimm's law (PIE *p -> Germanic f, *t -> th, *k -> h), verified and sealed on cognate pairs (stick_grimm_s_law_a_regular_sound_correspondence_verified). The branches and reflexes are attested; the proto-forms are reconstructions - postulates, cited, never sealed. Found, never generated (tools/seed_indo_european.py).", "source": {"label": "Narrow Highway — the Indo-European floor (comparative method)", "url": "", "ref": "stick_grimm_s_law_a_regular_sound_correspondence_verified", "authority_tier": "engine_derived"}, "shelf": "codex", "box": "floor", "bands": ["floor", "indo-european", "etymology", "cognates", "two trees", "linguistics", "one map"], "subject": "Indo-European", "connections": [{"to_card_id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "relationship": "part_of", "evidence": "the Indo-European floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_germanic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Germanic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_italic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Italic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_hellenic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Hellenic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_indo_iranian", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Indo-Iranian"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_celtic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Celtic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_ie_branch_balto_slavic", "relationship": "has_part", "evidence": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Balto-Slavic"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_language_round_trip", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals the held Strong's lexicon, 5523 Greek + 8674 Hebrew = 14197 lemmas - the original-language basis the surface text is flipped into for study (flip, work, flip back), the tongue this linguistics floor reconstructs"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_morphology", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals a segmentation as letter arithmetic (unbreakable = un 2 + break 5 + able 4 = 11); morphology is the root x pattern basis of a word, the first gap filled to make this linguistics floor comprehensive"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_transliteration", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals Greek romanizations by a fixed scheme (logos, theos) through linguistics.LING_VERIFY; general transliteration broadens this linguistics floor beyond the Strong's lexicon"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_semantics", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals WordNet synonymy (car = automobile) and IS-A (a dog is a canine) through linguistics.LING_VERIFY; semantics is the meaning layer of this linguistics floor, cited from WordNet, antonymy declined"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_closed_class_pos", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals function-word tags (the=article, and=conjunction) through linguistics.LING_VERIFY; the closed classes are finite and deterministic, open-class declines - syntax on this floor"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_typology", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals language families (English is Indo-European, Arabic is Semitic) through linguistics.LING_VERIFY; typology is the family tree of tongues, the home this Indo-European floor is named for"}, {"to_card_id": "card_chart_syntax", "relationship": "charted_by", "evidence": "the stick seals a real chart-parser result (the cat sat on the mat parses; cat the sat does not) through linguistics.LING_VERIFY; a deterministic offline parser lifts the open-class syntax decline on this linguistics floor"}], "author": "engine", "created_at": 0.0, "updated_at": 0.0, "visibility": "public", "lifecycle_stage": "public", "volatility": "permanent", "surface": "secular", "generated": false, "call": "codex.floor", "facets": {"subject": ["cognates", "etymology", "indo-european", "linguistics", "one map", "two trees"]}, "presentation": {"glyph": "•", "kind_label": "floor", "by": "Narrow Highway — the Indo-European floor (comparative method)", "authority": "engine_derived", "posted": "", "standing": ""}, "neighbors": [{"id": "card_k_floor_of_discovery", "title": "The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God", "relationship": "part of", "why": "the Indo-European floor rests on the one Floor of Discovery", "href": "/card/card_k_floor_of_discovery", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_germanic", "title": "Germanic — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Germanic", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_germanic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_italic", "title": "Italic — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Italic", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_italic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_hellenic", "title": "Hellenic — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Hellenic", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_hellenic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_indo_iranian", "title": "Indo-Iranian — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Indo-Iranian", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_indo_iranian", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_celtic", "title": "Celtic — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Celtic", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_celtic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_ie_branch_balto_slavic", "title": "Balto-Slavic — a branch of Indo-European", "relationship": "has part", "why": "a branch (tree) of the Indo-European family: Balto-Slavic", "href": "/card/card_ie_branch_balto_slavic", "resolved": true}, {"id": "card_chart_language_round_trip", "title": "Scripture study is the eigenbasis round-trip", "relationship": "charted by", "why": "the stick seals the held Strong's lexicon, 5523 Greek + 8674 Hebrew = 14197 lemmas - the original-language basis the surface text is flipped into for study (flip, work, flip back), the tongue this lin", "href": "/card/card_chart_language_round_trip", "resolved": true}], "house": {"door": "FIND", "kind": "card", "trail": "connections", "seal": "/card/card_floor_indo_european", "next_step": {"do": "follow a connection: what this card rests on, and what rests on it", "door": "FIND", "tool": "card_connections", "params": {"id": "card_floor_indo_european"}}, "ends": "a verdict or a card · the trail · a seal · one next step"}}