I should have stated this as: in the tree of words with shared roots, seeking out etymological first and second cousins
Not like a thesaurus (or, like an augmented one) — a prefix/suffix dictionary, or one that includes word families..https://twitter.com/starsandrobots/status/814693034730237952 …
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this sounds like something i've heard of before. argh, some academic corpus
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"sounds like something I've heard" and couldn't remember is.. exactly how we got here ;)
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the last few years, it has gotten harder to find this stuff, as google gets ~better, the less it will do what you want
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Esperanto dictionaries are kinda like this.
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Have you seen the American Heritage dictionary of Indo-European roots?
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https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/ieguide.html … and references from words in the dictionary.
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Do you want other languages too, 'cause that's basically how my brain works.
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or what Micheal kankan calls a 'topical index'
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A hard copy dictionary or app or desktop or all interfaces for this command line binary?
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