scythian_search
Look a Proto-Scythian word up
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Look a Proto-Scythian lemma up on Wiktionary and return its senses plus
its full descendants payload — the reconstructed etymology and the reflex
tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese, attested scholarship, not invention.
Plain ASCII spellings are folded to the reconstruction's diacritics and
the result notes the resolution. With search_language='eng' the query is
an English word instead: the result lists the lemmas whose glosses match
it (the translations block) plus their expanded entries. Returns Markdown
plus the same result as structuredContent matching the declared
outputSchema.
Results are cached server-side; first-time queries reach the live
upstream politely and calls are rate limited — on a rate-limit error,
wait a few seconds and retry. Content is from en.wiktionary.org
(CC BY-SA 4.0 — attribute and share alike if republished).
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Scythian (default): a SINGLE Proto-Scythian lemma — plain ASCII works ('tigri' finds *tiɣri: macrons and carons are folded, and ɣ→g, δ→d, β→b, ə→e, θ→t or th), with or without the reconstruction asterisk. English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Proto-Scythian equivalents you want — matched against every entry's glosses. |
| search_language | any | no | Language the query word is in: 'xsc' (default) looks the Proto-Scythian lemma up directly; 'eng' finds the lemmas whose English glosses match the query (the local gloss index — reconstructed languages have no translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way. |
| include_forms | boolean | no | When true (default), each match's full descendants payload — etymology, glosses and the reflex tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese — is returned INLINE in ONE call, no follow-up scythian_get_descendants. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded entries; the matched-lemmas list itself is always returned. |
| max_forms | any | no | Optional override for how many descendants payloads to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each payload is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default. |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"SearchLanguage": {
"description": "The query language. ``xsc`` (ISO 639-3 Scythian; Wiktionary's entry code is\n``xsc-pro``) looks a Proto-Scythian lemma up directly — ASCII spellings are\nfolded (``tigri`` finds ``*tiɣri``) via the reverse index. ``eng`` searches in\nreverse: the English query is matched against the indexed glosses of all\nlemmas, and each match is then looked up normally.",
"enum": [
"xsc",
"eng"
],
"title": "SearchLanguage",
"type": "string"
}
},
"properties": {
"query": {
"description": "The word to look up, in the language search_language names. Scythian (default): a SINGLE Proto-Scythian lemma — plain ASCII works ('tigri' finds *tiɣri: macrons and carons are folded, and ɣ→g, δ→d, β→b, ə→e, θ→t or th), with or without the reconstruction asterisk. English (search_language='eng'): the English word whose Proto-Scythian equivalents you want — matched against every entry's glosses.",
"maxLength": 80,
"minLength": 1,
"title": "Query",
"type": "string"
},
"search_language": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/SearchLanguage",
"default": "xsc",
"description": "Language the query word is in: 'xsc' (default) looks the Proto-Scythian lemma up directly; 'eng' finds the lemmas whose English glosses match the query (the local gloss index — reconstructed languages have no translation tables) and returns their full entries. Glosses are in English either way."
},
"include_forms": {
"default": true,
"description": "When true (default), each match's full descendants payload — etymology, glosses and the reflex tree down to Ossetian and Khotanese — is returned INLINE in ONE call, no follow-up scythian_get_descendants. Set false for a cheap screen of which entries exist. Bounded by a per-search cap — use max_forms to adjust per call. For eng queries this governs the expanded entries; the matched-lemmas list itself is always returned.",
"title": "Include Forms",
"type": "boolean"
},
"max_forms": {
"anyOf": [
{
"maximum": 12,
"minimum": 0,
"type": "integer"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "Optional override for how many descendants payloads to expand this call (0–12). On an uncached query each payload is one politely paced upstream fetch, so high values on cold queries are slow. Omit for the server default.",
"title": "Max Forms"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"title": "scythian_searchArguments",
"type": "object"
}