fromtheword

Fromtheword is a web-based platform for linguistic data analysis and word exploration. It provides tools to examine word usage, etymology, and semantic relationships across languages, with interactive visualizations and downloadable datasets.

Origin: The project began in the early 2010s as an open-source initiative by linguists and software developers seeking transparent, reproducible word data. It evolved through community contributions and partnerships with academic and cultural institutions.

Features: Word profiles with definitions, etymology notes, frequency histories, collocations, and related words. Concordance views, co-occurrence networks, semantic maps, multilingual glossaries. API access and data export in CSV or JSON.

Data sources and licensing: Data sources include publicly available corpora and open lexical resources; license compliance and attribution are emphasized. The platform supports user-contributed data under open licenses.

Reception: Used in linguistics education and research; praised for accessible visualization and reproducibility, while ongoing discussions address data completeness and licensing.