Lookup the etymology of English words in your Obsidian notes.
This plugin fetches results from Douglas Harper's fantastic Online Etymology Dictionary and therefore requires internet connection. Consider thanking Douglas for this wonderful resource with a donation.
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🌱 ESL learners
🌱 Studying law, medicine, botany, chemistry, physics, philosophy, linguistics, architecture and more
🌱 Enhancing the clarity of your writing
🌱 Nerds just plain curious about language history and word origins
- Highlight all or part of a word in your notes
- Run search
- (Optional) Click or tap an entry to copy it to your clipboard
There are three ways to run Etyomology Lookup
Hit the "sprout" icon in the left ribbon
(Cmd
+ P
): "Etymology Lookup - Search"
Contributions via bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are welcome