Download Etymology
Explore roots, meanings, language paths, related words, and historical context.
A faster way to understand the history inside a word.
Etymology is free to download and requires no account. Look up a word, save favorites, revisit your history offline, and build vocabulary from roots instead of rote memory.
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A clear path from one word to its whole story.
Discover origins, follow meaning changes, and explore the vocabulary connected to every word.
See where a word begins
Start with the original form, language, and meaning that shaped a word.
Follow the language journey
Watch meanings move across languages and centuries in a clear timeline.
Find the words it connects to
Explore cognates, word parts, relatives, and surprising vocabulary links.
Make discovery a daily habit
Keep a small, memorable word discovery waiting whenever you open the app.
Built for a wider read
Give the language journey room to breathe.
Tablet layouts keep the lookup, timeline, and connections easy to scan together.
Read the whole story on a tablet
Trace an origin, scan the journey, and keep more of the story in view.
Make meaning changes easy to follow
A spacious reading layout makes long language paths feel approachable.