Alpha/draft version. READ THE WARNING. DO NOT LINK widely. Typo/bug/feature reports not helpful ATM :)

Hello.

What is this?

This is radix. Radix is a cognate-tree-grower. Given a word, it shows you all the etymonic descendants of all the etymonic ancestors of that word.

Why?

Because it's cool.

See radix.ink/_why.

How do I use it?

You go to a url like radix.ink/hippocampus or radix.ink/abstract or radix.ink/language or radix.ink/radix or radix.ink/platypus or radix.ink/symbol or radix.ink/cling.

See radix.ink/_usage.

I don't get what I'm looking at.

If you go to radix.ink/some_word, you're looking at: a tree representation (sometimes just a line) of the words that some_word comes from, where rightward = pastward; for a few languages, lists of words that are cognate with some_word; and a tree representation of the words that come from the ancestors of some_word, where rightward = futureward.

See radix.ink/_output.

How does radix work?

Radix attempts to infer, from the text of wiktionary, which words come from which other words. Then it builds a poset of the words pastward of a given word, and then builds a poset of the words futureward of the pastmost words in the previous poset. Then it prunes this (often giant) poset and displays the pruned version.

See radix.ink/_how.

Is radix 100% perfectly accurate?

No. Whatever the opposite of 100% is. I mean, it's well over 0% accurate, but like, it's unambiguously [not 100% accurate]. Radix provides nothing more than good guesses.

See radix.ink/_warning.

Where is this going?

See radix.ink/_future.

Can I help?

Maybe! See radix.ink/_assist.

Where does radix come from?

See radix.ink/_about.