Research Word Etymology includes 5 code blocks for direct copy-paste. At roughly 1,839 words the SKILL.md is on the longer end of the catalog distribution.
Research Word Etymology sits in the Science & Research category under the research-methods sub-topic in the ClaudSkills catalog. There are 10 related skills indexed alongside it; comparing a few before installing usually reveals which fits your workflow best.
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Trace a word's origin from its modern form back through attested historical stages and reconstructed proto-language roots, identify cognates in related languages, document semantic drift with dated evidence, and flag any folk etymologies.
Research Word Etymology is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the research-methods sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when investigating word origins, comparing cognate sets across related languages, charting historical meaning changes, or debunking popular but unsupported origin stories.
The Research Word Etymology Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 94,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/research-word-etymology/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\research-word-etymology\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/research-word-etymology/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Research Word Etymology is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{research-word-etymology-2026,
author = {pjt222},
title = {Research Word Etymology [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/research-word-etymology/}
}Browse all Science & Research skills in the ClaudSkills registry, or explore these other picks from the same category:
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