A dictionary that shows where words come from. Clean definitions plus the full etymology chain, Old English to Latin to Proto-Indo-European. Free on web, iPhone and Mac.
Hi, I'm Josh, I built Wordroot.
Dictionaries stop at the definition. The interesting part is the chain behind it. Wordroot looks up any English word and walks it back: Middle English, Old English, Latin, Greek, all the way to Proto-Indo-European where it is known. It is the tool I wanted every time I fell into a Wiktionary hole.
Free. Happy to answer anything.