u/pmigdal

See The tree of 'tree' — an explorable explanation. Looks the best on desktop (especially the dynamic transitions), but can be viewed on mobile as well.

I created this chart afterwards, to also provide a static form.

Sources:

• General: Wiktionary, etymonline
• Specialist etymological dictionaries: Kroonen, EDPG (Germanic), Beekes, EDG (Greek), de Vaan, EDL (Latin), Mayrhofer, EWAia & Turner, CDIAL (Indo-Aryan), Kloekhorst, EDHIL (Hittite), Derksen, EDSIL / EDBIL (Slavic/Baltic), Matasović, EDPC (Celtic), Adams, Tocharian B, Martirosyan, EDAIL (Armenian), Orel, HGE, Watkins / AHD, Pokorny, IEW, EIEC, NIL.

In the interactive version, for each word there are citations.

Tools used: D3.js, React, Claude Code

Code: github.com/stared/tree-of-tree

https://p.migdal.pl/tree-of-tree/