Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

Re:Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle? by decuran on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:32PM (#26654603)

I'm making a tool for exploring word etymologies.

I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way.

I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.

Also interesting are the Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "animate" and "unanimous" to "anemone".

https://www.etymologyexplorer.com

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle? by stakkur on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @09:28PM (#26655619)

https://www.etymonline.com

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle? by decuran on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:16PM (#26655910)

Yes, this is the site that inspired me! I was frustrated that it was so hard to navigate to cognates (word cousins) or from roots to descendants. So mine is focused on navigating between words like that

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle? by tikwidd on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:22PM (#26655944)

Wow, I have been thinking lately about building something similar. Looks very nice!

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Re:Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle? by decuran on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:30PM (#26655992)

Thanks so much! Would love any other feedback you have. I'm making updates often

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