A living dictionary of shared wisdom
Every language has
a proverb for this.
Type a word, a theme, or a proverb in any language. We'll find its cousins across the cultures of the world — literal translations, equivalents, and the concept they share.
Proverb of the day
Browse by theme
The concepts humans everywhere have thought worth saying out loud.
The atlas, in preview
A glimpse of what happens when you index every proverb by concept, language, and era. Full analytics ship in v2.
Plate I · The shared web of proverbs
Shared concepts across the world's proverb traditions — trace a concept below.
Concepts by cultures represented
Which shared ideas span the most cultures in our seed corpus.
Most-used images
The nouns and creatures our proverbs return to.
Oldest attestations
Every proverb has a first-recorded moment. These are the oldest we know.
Mission
To connect every proverb across every culture into one searchable graph — so we can map the shared concepts, stories, and wisdom of humanity, and see where cultures overlap and where they diverge.
Paremia is an open, wiki-model project. Data is CC BY-SA 4.0. Anyone can contribute; every entry keeps its sources and its edit history.