{"id":10301,"date":"2014-08-22T12:14:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10301"},"modified":"2014-08-22T12:14:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T12:14:55","slug":"blackberries-and-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10301","title":{"rendered":"Blackberries and Walls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French words <em>mur<\/em> (wall) <em>m\u00fbr<\/em> (ripe; mature) and <em>m\u00fbre<\/em> (blackberry; mulberry) are written differently but pronounced the same &#8211; [my\u0281], so are only distinguished by context in speech.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>mur<\/em> (wall) comes from the Latin <em>m\u016brus<\/em> (wall), from the Old Latin <em>*moerus\/*moiros<\/em>, from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*mei<\/em> (to fix, to build fortifications or fences) [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mur\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>m\u00fbr<\/em> (ripe; mature) comes from the Latin <em>m\u0101t\u016brus<\/em> (mature; ripe; early), from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*meh\u2082-<\/em> (to ripen, to mature) [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/m%C3%BBr\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>m\u00fbre<\/em> (blackberry; mulberry) comes from the Vulgar Latin <em>mora<\/em> (mulberry), from the Latin <em>m\u014drum<\/em> (mulberry) from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03bc\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (m\u00f3ron &#8211; mulberry; blackberry) from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*moro<\/em> (mulberry; blackberry). [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/m%C3%BBre\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>One Welsh word for wall, <em>mur<\/em> [m\u0268\u031er\/m\u026ar], comes from the same root as the French word <em>mur<\/em>, probably via Norman or Latin. Another word for wall in Welsh is <em>wal<\/em>, which was probably borrowed from English. The word <em>pared<\/em> is used for interior walls, though only in literary Welsh. This probably comes from the Latin <em>pari\u0113s<\/em> (wall) from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*sparri<\/em> (wall), which is also the root of the Spanish word <em>pared<\/em> (wall), the Portuguese <em>parede<\/em> (wall), and similar words in other Romance languages [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/spanish-english\/pared\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word wall comes from the Old English <em>weall<\/em> (wall, dike, earthwork, rampart, dam, rocky shore, cliff), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*wallaz\/*wall\u0105<\/em> (wall, rampart, entrenchment), from the Latin <em>vallum<\/em> (wall, rampart, entrenchment, palisade), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*wel-<\/em> (to turn, wind, roll) [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/wall\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French words mur (wall) m\u00fbr (ripe; mature) and m\u00fbre (blackberry; mulberry) are written differently but pronounced the same &#8211; [my\u0281], so are only distinguished by context in speech. The word mur (wall) comes from the Latin m\u016brus (wall), from the Old Latin *moerus\/*moiros, from the Proto-Indo-European *mei (to fix, to build fortifications or fences) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,118,10,15,41,45,64,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}