The ladder was sampling eastward only — Turkic, Mongolic, Indic. It now takes one magnitude from each of the routes the state actually runs, each borrowed for its own original magnitude and then lexicalized as a power of TWELVE: çenāj 12² Adriatic Venetian centinaio, a hundred-count tüsaç 12³ East Corridor Slavic tysjača mürās 12⁴ Black Sea Greek myriás, the myriad laxô 12⁵ Silk Road Persian lakh krōr 12⁶ Red Sea Persian kurūr, the far-trade great number Each digested until the source is gone: centinaio → çentināj → çentnāj (unstressed -i- syncopates) → çenāj (/ntn/ sheds its stop) tysjača → tüsjača → tüsjaç (final -a apocopates) → tüsaç (glide absorbed) myriás → müriās → mürās (unstressed -i- syncopates before the long vowel) kurūr → krūr (unstressed u- syncopates) → krōr (ū lowers under stress) The ladder is a map read outward from home — Adriatic, then the corridor, then the Black Sea, then the Silk Road, then the Red Sea. The bigger the number, the further from home the word came from. Adjacent magnitudes fuse into opaque bricks rather than standing as phrases: mürās tüsaç → mürāstüsaç → mürāstüs → murastüs 22,464 laxô mürās → laxômürās → laxmürās → laxmur 269,568 krōr laxô → krōrlaxô → krōllaxô → krōlaxô → krōlax 3,234,816 2,108 headwords. Canon self-check 0 failures; every value round-trips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TxQoFo14ErhNS6dDb6JrN8