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+name: "Etymologue"
+subtitle: "Word origins you can walk forwards as well as back"
+date: 2026-07-28
+shortlist: true
+link: "https://etymologue.com/"
+linkText: "etymologue.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [web-tools, words-and-humor, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [etymology, dictionary, wiktionary]
+description: "396,192 English words and 240,011 etymology links pulled out of Wiktionary and made walkable in both directions."
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+Wiktionary knows where words come from but buries it in prose. Etymologue pulls the graph out and lets you move around in it: 396,192 English words, 722,472 lexemes, 3,025 languages, 240,011 links between them. Pick an origin language and see everything English took from it; open a Latin root and walk forward to its descendants rather than backward to its parents. That reverse direction is the part no dictionary gives you.