The fact that I found a Proto-Indo-European dictionary-translator with accompanying word list, is probably not good, just from a time-consumed-by-nifty-tool perspective.

It's like finding the Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid.

I am slightly confused that there is a word in the PIE word list for 'brass' but not 'bronze', since they are not the same alloy, but maybe that wasn't a distinction made during the PIE period..?
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Also two entirely different words for "to fart loudly" and "to fart quietly."
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