Etymology Bot

Sending a word in any language and answering in the Telegram language is harder than the English Wiktionary path. Salary already has a clean Latin story on the English page. What happens for a word whose best sources are not English, for example a Chinese or Arabic term that is thin in English Wiktionary but long in its own language? Does the bot quote the original-language page and translate that quote, or only cite English? Folk etymologies are often the lines those pages quote most. If every claim only needs a verbatim quote, a false folk story that Wiktionary itself quotes would still pass. Do you mark those as disputed, or does any quoted line count?

A quote for every claim is exactly what most etymology sites are missing, half of them just repeat each other. Love the idea. Do you pull the sources yourselves or from a set of dictionaries? Congrats on the launch!

Hi, I am a solo developer in Kyiv. I built this because etymology answers online are of two kinds. Some are dry dictionary entries. Others are unsourced trivia, where you cannot tell fact from folk tale. I wanted the good part of etymology, the story, with proof next to it. So every claim in an answer must come with a verbatim quote from a cited source, and code removes any claim that has no matching quote. Try "salary" first. I would like to hear which words give a wrong or thin answer. Thank you for looking.