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Etymological Wordnet

️Fri Feb 08 2013

Introduction

Some might be surprised to find out that the English word "muscular" and the German word for the animal "bat" share the same origins.

The Etymological Wordnet project provides information about how words in different languages are etymologically related.

The information is for the most part mined from Wiktionary. The semi-structured data is turned into a machine-readable etymological database that also incorporates some additional manually added etymological relationships.

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Contact

Please get in touch with Gerard de Melo if you would like to contribute to the Etymological WordNet or if you have additional suggestions or research proposals. There are several ways in which the data could be improved if you have a specific research project in mind.