adelevett/en_wiktionary_etymological_divergence

Etymological Divergence Dataset

Summary

English words that have semantically diverged despite sharing a common etymological root

Data Fields

• root (string): The root word from which the English words descend, formatted as Language:word.
• root_definition (string): The definition of the root word.
• divergent_words (list of strings): A list of the modern English words that have diverged.
• word_count (int): The number of divergent words in the group.
• average_similarity_of_hq_pairs (float): The average cosine similarity between all high-quality pairs in the group. High-quality pairs are those that have passed spelling, phonetic, and other filters.
• definitions (dict): A dictionary mapping each divergent word to its modern English definition.
• pairwise_scores (dict): A dictionary mapping each high-quality word pair (formatted as word1-word2) to its Qwen-model-based cosine similarity score.
• relationships (dict): A dictionary mapping each high-quality word pair to its relationship type, determined by a semantic axis analysis (conceptual_opposite or unrelated).

Example Entry

{
  "root": "Proto-Germanic:grōtijaną",
  "root_definition": "to cause to weep; make cry",
  "divergent_words": ["greet", "grouch", "grouse", "grudge"],
  "word_count": 4,
  "average_similarity_of_hq_pairs": 0.3544,
  "definitions": {
    "greet": "To welcome in a friendly manner...",
    "grouch": "A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.",
    "grouse": "Any of various game birds...",
    "grudge": "Deep-seated and/or long-term animosity..."
  },
  "pairwise_scores": {
    "greet-grouch": 0.4713, "greet-grouse": 0.172, "greet-grudge": 0.3962,
    "grouch-grouse": 0.2764, "grouch-grudge": 0.5986, "grouse-grudge": 0.2119
  },
  "relationships": {
    "greet-grouch": "conceptual_opposite", "greet-grouse": "unrelated", "greet-grudge": "conceptual_opposite",
    "grouch-grouse": "unrelated", "grouch-grudge": "conceptual_opposite", "grouse-grudge": "unrelated"
  }
}