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This is an example of a word element:
A word element represents a word. The first dimmer part is the language of the word, sometimes shortened, in this case "English"⟶"En". The second part is the text of the word itself, in this case "thing".
Some word elements will also show a definition:
The asterisk * means that the word is reconstructed.
You can change the appearance of word elements in radix.ink/_settings.
The controls that a word element provides are described in radix.ink/_usage.
This section gives info about the word that's being reported on.
The sense number says which sense is being reported on. A given word--a string of characters and the language--may have multiple underlying senses (homographs). E.g. the string "wind" in English has two unrelated meanings with unrelated etymons. A radix page reports on one sense.
The etymology section from the wiktionary article on the starting word, if such exists, is (imperfectly) rendered.
The pastward trunk for a word shows the etymological ancestors of the word. If two words are linked together, the one on the right is the ancestor of the one on the left. E.g.:
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In the pastward trunk, this would mean that English "sing" descends from Middle English "singen". The pastward trunk uses these abbreviations:
The point of the pastward trunk is to show all the roots of the starting word. Further rightward on the screen corresponds to earlier in time.
The simplest case is a linear trunk. See for example radix.ink/sing:
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The white dashes like W-V indicate that the word W is a direct descendent of the word V, e.g. through inheritance (direct descent as a language developed over time) or borrowing (transplanting a word from one language to another).
Ideally, the pastward trunk is the set of senses that are pastward of the starting sense, going all the way back pastward as far as humanity's knowledge of proto-languages can go.
In a spiritual sense, the pastward trunk is a tree. As we go pastward, we split exactly when a word was formed by combining two or more morphemes, e.g. in compounding or affixing. (It is possible to have a single word formed from "doublet morphemes", such as in radix.ink/sightseeing, but presumably (besides reduplication) this is very rare.)
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Mathematically, the pastward trunk is sort of a tree, but not really. It's closer to a poset.
Technically, it's a
Practically, there are many sources of error that make . See radix.ink/_warning.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partially_ordered_set https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preorder
So a radix page for a PIE word will have a very short pastward trunk, but for a word in a modern language will often have a substantial pastward tree splits, affixes, sense abmgituity , errors
"W is pastward of V" means "There is some string of words U1
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Cognate, per both etymonline and radix:
Cognate per etymonline, but not per radix:
Cognate per radix, but not per etymonline:
Most recent common ancestor with starting word:
Masked (futurewards excluded as irrelevant):
Word that has been already included in the same tree:
...shows all and only the words that are both futureward of the pastward poset, and also from a language in some set of languages, and some ...