Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root
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- External ID
- 48671209
- Source
- HN
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- Product
- Tree, truth, druid and tar share one Proto-Indo-European root
- Website domain
- migdal.pl
- Launched
- June 25, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12568306010928962
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Did you know that truth, druid, dryad, tar and dendrite all grew from the same root as the word tree? A single Proto-Indo-European root, *deru-.Source code: https://github.com/stared/tree-of-treeI am grateful to Miroslav Šedivý, a Czechoslovak polyglot I met at PiterPy 2018, who sparked a curiosity that Polish 'zdrowy' (healthy) is from 'drewno' (wood) or 'drzewo' (tree), which are related to the English word 'tree'. A few weeks ago I saw Odd Pride's short on the tree of life, which prompted me to make an explorable explanation (https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2024/05/science-games-explorable-ex...), a medium close to my heart.
Enrichment
- Theme
- hardware hacking and maker projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- etymology research tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes An educational data visualization website showcasing etymological relationships from a Proto-Indo-European root is a static web app built with standard visualization libraries like D3.js or Vis.js.
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