{"id":11398,"date":"2015-06-30T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2015-06-30T18:40:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T17:40:59","slug":"meads-and-meadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11398","title":{"rendered":"Meads and Meadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/taffsmead.jpg\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Taffs Mead Embankment\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in Cardiff last weekend and one of the places I walked along was the Taffs Mead Embankment, which runs along the River Taff. I&#8217;ve seen the word <strong>mead<\/strong> in the name Thamesmead, a district of south east London, but hadn&#8217;t thought about what it might mean.<\/p>\n<p>Mead in this context means meadow and comes from the Old English <em>m\u01e3d<\/em> (meadow), and is cognate with West Frisian <em>miede<\/em>, and the Low German <em>Meed<\/em> and <em>Mede<\/em>. These all come from the Proto-Germanic <em>*m\u0113dw\u014d<\/em> (meadow, pasture), as does meadow [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mead\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Cardiff last weekend and one of the places I walked along was the Taffs Mead Embankment, which runs along the River Taff. I&#8217;ve seen the word mead in the name Thamesmead, a district of south east London, but hadn&#8217;t thought about what it might mean. Mead in this context means meadow and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","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=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}