features / etymology
words

Trace a word back to its roots

Give FYZX a word and it walks the descent — each ancestor language, each older spelling, each shift in meaning — as a tree you can open rather than a paragraph you have to trust.

How to use it
01

Type a word

Any word, in any of the languages FYZX reads.

02

Follow the descent

English ← Middle English spunge ← Latin spongia ← Greek σπόγγος.

03

Open an ancestor

Each root is a node; open it to see what it meant and what it came from.

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What runs behind it

under the hoodPOST /api/etymology, the same tree renderer as every other lens.

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