Show HN: Etymology Database from Wiktionary

Category: database

Tags: etymology, wiktionary, search, linguistics, ai-parsing

Score: 5.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 4, Documentation: 2, Utility: 5)

Etymologue is a database of word etymologies extracted from Wiktionary using AI parsing, allowing users to search words by affixes, cognates, language of origin, meaning, and part of speech. It makes latent etymological connections in Wiktionary accessible through a searchable interface, though the data is not fully validated.

Target audience: linguists, language enthusiasts, researchers, writers

Repository: https://etymologue.com/

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