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Scroll one Proto-Indo-European root and watch it branch into tree, truth, druid, tar and dendrite
The Tree of tree
Hacker News · New
by Piotr Migdał
A scrolling explorable etymology that follows the root *deru- through sixteen steps, from English and Slavic descendants to oak, wisdom and Irish place names. Each branch is drawn as it comes up in the text.
Notes
The page doesn't mention AI; the public repo's commits are co-authored by Claude (checked on GitHub), the HN post doesn't say so.
Source checked 2026-10-16. Descriptions summarize the maker's own account, not independent testing.
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