An excellent etymology explorer
Great app for discovering the origin of words. One thing that might be improved: When you use keyboard suggestions to type words, a space is added to each word, making word recognition impossible in the app (words are not recognized when they appear with an extra space). In other words, if I start typing the word “suggestion” and accept the proposition from the iPhone keyboard, it is as if it is not at all in the app. I must remind myself to delete the additional space to arrive at this specific word. It happened to me several times that I started typing a word, clicked on the keyboard suggestion, and then there were no suggestions in the app. I thought: “ok, the word is not in the app database”, so I closed it. Thus, it would be nice if the spaces were trimmed automatically. For future development, I’d suggest creating a bank of prefixes and suffixes where you can explore them freely. Another idea is to implement a word builder where you could individually choose words’ building blocks and create a whole word. It would be a reverse process to what we have now (which is also remarkable). For example, if you have the prefix pre, you can choose post and somehow arrive at "preposterous.".
