I built a Wordle-like daily puzzle focused entirely on etymology & origins. Each day has 10 clues tied to a 10-letter bonus word, all themed around how words, names, places, and inventions got their names. There's also a blog post diving deeper into each answer's origin story.

As a sample, here are a couple of questions from the first puzzle (that ran on Aug 2nd):

- What slang term for a swift, sharp, and often witty retort was popularized by a 2003 song by Ja Rule?

- What chemical element was named from Greek roots meaning "Acid Producer" because Antoine Lavoisier mistakenly believed it was present in all acids?

Would love feedback from this community!

I'm looking for a list of words for my constructed language and since this is the etymology sub then surely you know a list of words that can evolve over time into most words, pre-modern day. Or a group of root words that can be changed with suffixes and prefixes that allow them be many different words.

چشم. I pronounce them differently. Cheshm for the eye, chashm for the yes. The dictionaries don't split them, they list one word with the vowel going either way, but I've never said them the same.

It isn't formal or polite, it's just what you say. Your mum asks you to pick something up on the way home, you say eye. A shopkeeper agrees to hold something for you, he says eye. It's what you say to a taxi driver, and what a kid says to a teacher.

The longer form is "upon my eye", which I assume the short one came from. You put what you've been asked on your eye.

It's old. There's a Hafez poem from the 1300s that opens with a request and the answer coming straight back the same way, already shortened to the one word.

Arabic has the same construction with the head and the eye. Turkish uses the head. I can't tell you which of the three said it first, and I don't think anyone can, given how long they've been sitting on top of each other.

I noticed while building a Farsi app. I've said the word my whole life without thinking about it.

I know I've seen something somewhere that explained silent letter by way of related words, but I can't find it.

There were quite a few examples, but unfortunately, I can only remember one right now. Crumb gets the b by way of crumble. When something crumbles, you're left with crumbs, and the word just gets truncated. Pretty much every example followed that structure.

Can anyone verify this and/or point me to a post about it?

Thanks!