About Miraris

Miraris, from Latin 'mirari', second-person singular: 'you wonder'. All the marvellous histories hidden in our languages.

Why I built this app

I'm captivated by the hidden histories of the words we use every day: how words were built, how they evolved, and how and why their senses shift. I had trouble finding tools that let me simply see and grasp what makes etymology so interesting, so I built Miraris: a simple tool that lets you explore the intriguing histories hidden in our languages.

Data sources

All raw etymological data on Miraris is drawn from English Wiktionary, parsed via the structured dumps maintained at Kaikki.org. This project could hardly exist without the work of the people contributing to Wiktionary.

Wiktionary's text is published under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0). Most of the data shown here has been cleaned, restructured, and summarized. In keeping with that license, the etymological content Miraris builds from Wiktionary data (the summaries, graphs, and translations) is itself made available under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Use of AI and reliability

Graphs, word history summaries, and translations are generated with the help of a Large Language Model, based on cleaned and curated Wiktionary data, through a process tuned for reliability. The engine can still make mistakes, especially when the source text is ambiguous or incomplete, or for words with very deep etymologies. You can inspect the raw Wiktionary texts by clicking any node on the graph, or cross-check with another source like Etymonline.

Contact

Email: max@miraris.app · X: @MaxouIsBuilding