This is a rewrite of The Macro-Etymological Analyzer, a tool for etymological text analysis originally written as a web app on the LAMP stack.
- The web interface has been replaced with a command-line interface, making the MEA scriptable and machine-readable and writable. A web front-end to the command-line interface will be possible in a future version.
- It is now possible to analyze and compare multiple texts at a time.
- Users can filter for only those language families they care about.
You can install this program with git and pip:
git clone https://github.com/JonathanReeve/macro-etym
cd macro-etym
pip install .
If you experience errors, you could try installing with pip3 instead.
To compare the macro-etymologies of Moby Dick and Pride and Prejudice, first download the texts to your current working directory, then run:
macroetym moby-dick.txt pride-and-prejudice.txt
To see that data represented in a chart (experimental), try appending --chart. Although you might be better off outputting it as a CSV (with --csv) and then making your own chart using spreadsheet software.
To see a list of options, run:
macroetym --help
That should show you this screen:
Usage: macroetym [OPTIONS] FILENAMES...
Analyzes a text(s) for the etymologies of its words, and tallies the
words by origin language, and origin language family.
Options:
--allstats Get all etymological statistics about the file(s).
--lang TEXT Specify the language of the texts. Use ISO639-3 three-
letter language code. Default is English.
--showfamilies TEXT A comma-separated list of language families to show,
e.g. Latinate,Germanic
--affixes Don't ignore affixes. Default is to ignore them.
--current Don't ignore current language and its middle variants.
Default is to ignore them.
-c, --csv Print a machine-readable CSV instead of a pretty
table.
--chart Make a pretty graph of the results. For one text, a
pie; for multiple, a bar.
--verbose Show debugging messages.
--help Show this message and exit.