{"id":12909,"date":"2016-09-23T10:55:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2016-09-23T10:55:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T09:55:20","slug":"freshness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12909","title":{"rendered":"Freshness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Welcome Week at Bangor University when new students arrive for the first time, register, join clubs and societies, some of which they&#8217;ll actually go to, and so on. It&#8217;s also known as <strong>Freshers&#8217; Week<\/strong> and the new students are known as <strong>freshers<\/strong>, though after this week, they&#8217;re generally known as first years.<\/p>\n<p>I understand that in the USA a first year student at high school and college is known as <strong>freshman<\/strong>. Does this apply to female students as well? Is the plural freshmen used?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freshman<\/strong> first appeared in writing in the 1550s meaning &#8220;newcomer or novice&#8221;, and was used to mean a first year student at university from the 1590s. The word <strong>freshwoman<\/strong> appeared in the 1620s. Related words include freshmanic, freshmanship, freshmanhood.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative for freshman, <strong>underclassman<\/strong>, meaning &#8220;sophomore (second year) or freshman&#8221; first appeared in 1869 [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&#038;search=freshman\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>fresh<\/strong> comes from the Old English <em>fersc<\/em> (fresh, pure, sweet), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*friskaz<\/em> (fresh), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*preysk-<\/em> \u200e(fresh) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fresh\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>What are first year students called in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is Welcome Week at Bangor University when new students arrive for the first time, register, join clubs and societies, some of which they&#8217;ll actually go to, and so on. It&#8217;s also known as Freshers&#8217; Week and the new students are known as freshers, though after this week, they&#8217;re generally known as first years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","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=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}