{"id":13202,"date":"2016-11-25T18:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=13202"},"modified":"2016-11-25T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:53:01","slug":"unfolding-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=13202","title":{"rendered":"Unfolding developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word for to develop in Welsh is <strong>datblygu<\/strong>, which is a combination of <em>dad<\/em> (un-) and <em>plygu<\/em> (to fold), so Welsh developments &#8220;unfold&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Datblygu<\/strong> also means &#8220;to evolve; reveal, disclose, display. to unfold, unwrap, unfurl, unroll, spread out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Plygu<\/em> means &#8220;to (<em>cause to<\/em>) bend, deflect, bow, stoop, refract (<em>light<\/em>); fold, wrap. to subdue, subjugate, overcome; apply twist (<em>meaning<\/em>), distort, pervert; submit, yield, waver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Plygu<\/em> comes from the Latin <em>plic\u014d<\/em> (to fold, coil), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*ple\u1e31-<\/em> \u200e(to plait, to weave). The Latin word also means to arrive, which comes from sailors folding their ship\u2019s sails when arriving somewhere.<\/p>\n<p><em>Plygu<\/em> is also found in:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <em>amblygu<\/em> = to wrap around, surround, wrap together, lap, envelop, cover. (<em>am<\/em> = around).<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>atblygu<\/em> = to unfold, refold, fold back (<em>at-<\/em> = to(wards))<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>arblygu<\/em> = to apply, adapt (<em>ar-<\/em> = fore, opposite)<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>darblygu<\/em> = to deflect (<em>dar-<\/em> = intensifer)<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>diblygu<\/em> = to unfold explicate, unravel (<em>di-<\/em> = negative)<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>goblygu<\/em> = to bend, bow, nod, fold, wrap up, leap, cover, hide. to conquer; imply, involve, implicate (<em>go-<\/em> = sub-)<br \/>\n&#8211; <em>gwrthblygu<\/em> = to bend back, fold back; reflect; pervert (<em>gwrth<\/em> = against, contra-)<br \/>\n &#8211; y<em>mblygu<\/em> =to bend, bow, stoop (<em>ym-<\/em> = reflexive)<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/plico\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word for to develop in Welsh is datblygu, which is a combination of dad (un-) and plygu (to fold), so Welsh developments &#8220;unfold&#8221;. Datblygu also means &#8220;to evolve; reveal, disclose, display. to unfold, unwrap, unfurl, unroll, spread out.&#8221; Plygu means &#8220;to (cause to) bend, deflect, bow, stoop, refract (light); fold, wrap. to subdue, subjugate, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,15,45,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202","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=13202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}