Wordroot

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Wordroot is a dictionary that shows you where words come from.

Look up any English word and get clean definitions plus the full etymology chain — Middle English, Old English, Latin, Ancient Greek, Proto-Germanic, all the way back to Proto-Indo-European where the trail exists.

• Fast search with definitions grouped by part of speech • Etymology chain showing each ancestor, its language, and how the word arrived (inherited, derived, or borrowed) • A word of the day to start from • No ads, no accounts, no tracking

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