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Show HN: EtymologyExplorer – word origin trees

1 pointsby decuranabout 4 years ago

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decuranabout 4 years ago
I made this because I&#x27;m really interested in how similar words relate to one another. I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.<p>The most interesting thing has been finding Proto-Indo-European roots, like &quot;h₂enh₁&quot;, which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning &quot;breath&quot;, that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from &quot;nose&quot; to &quot;anemone&quot;.