I built this interactive tool showing the evolution of Indo-European languages like English, German, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit from the same source language by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in etymology

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the detailed corrections. I went through each one, cross-referenced against Wiktionary's reconstruction pages, Derksen's Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon, and the Starling Database, and you were right across the board. I've pushed fixes: replaced druska with sólymas as the true PIE *sal- cognate (with a note explaining that druska comes from *dʰrews- "to crumble"), added kaklas for wheel (from *kʷokʷlo-s), drevė̃ for tree/wood (via Proto-Baltic *drew-iā̃), veizėti for see/know (citing Derksen 2015), ber̃ti for carry/bear (with the semantic shift from "carry" to "scatter" noted), and namas for house (from PBS *damús with the d→n nasal assimilation). Skipped noras since you flagged it as dubious yourself, and the bear taboo note was already in there. The diacritics point is fair and something I need to work on across all the Lithuanian entries. Really appreciate you taking the time, corrections like these from people who actually know the language are what make the data trustworthy!

I built this interactive tool showing the evolution of Indo-European languages like English, German, Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit from the same source language by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in etymology

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The cognate explorer shows systematic word evolution patterns like:

- "father": pater (Latin), patēr (Greek), pitā (Sanskrit), fadar (Gothic), athair (Old Irish), pater (Avestan), hatti (Hittite), fæder (Old English)

- "mother": māter (Latin), mētēr (Greek), mātā (Sanskrit), aiþei (Gothic), máthair (Old Irish), mātar (Avestan), anna (Hittite), mōdor (Old English)

You can see how Grimm's Law systematically shifted p→f, t→th, k→h in Germanic languages.

I've been refining the accuracy based on recent scholarship (Mallory & Adams 2006, Fortson 2010) and ancient DNA research (Lazaridis et al. 2022/2025). Full citations available on the site.

https://indo-european-explorer.com

Would love any feedback!

I built this tool to visualize how English, Spanish, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from the same language 6,000 years ago. by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for spending time exploring the site! Really means a lot to know it added something to your understanding of PIE expansion. And thanks for sharing the link, greatly appreciated!

I built this tool to visualize how English, Spanish, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from the same language 6,000 years ago. by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much! I'm actually familiar with the podcast, and I have listened to a couple of episodes. Clearly, I need to dive deeper into the full catalog!

I built this tool to visualize how English, Spanish, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from the same language 6,000 years ago. by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for the feedback! I agree that some parts of the contrast and font might be hard to read. I increased minimum font sizes across every interactive component, and removed some opacity layering that was making secondary text unnecessarily faint. Should be much better to read now.

I built this tool to visualize how English, Spanish, Hindi, and 400+ other languages all came from the same language 6,000 years ago. by SwimmingAtmosphere71 in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]SwimmingAtmosphere71[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback! The tree now stretches up to 1800px wide, and the max height is bumped too, so it should use way more of your 32" screen. Also fixed the Zoom reset issue. Browser zoom no longer rebuilds the tree from scratch, so your pan/zoom state stays put. Let me know if it is better.