{"id":14644,"date":"2017-10-16T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14644"},"modified":"2017-10-16T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:54:36","slug":"ambling-along","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14644","title":{"rendered":"Ambling Along"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/walking.gif\" width=\"118\" height=\"200\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Walking stick figure\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Icelandic word I learnt recently is <strong>(a\u00f0) labba<\/strong> [\u02c8lap\u02d0a], which means &#8216;to walk slowly, to amble, to stroll&#8217; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/labba\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples of usage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M\u00e9r finnst gaman a\u00f0 labba um b\u00e6inn = I like to stroll around town<\/li>\n<li>Lj\u00faft finnst m\u00e9r a\u00f0 labba \u00e1 p\u00f6bbinn = I like to walk to the pub [<a href=\"https:\/\/glatkistan.com\/2017\/02\/28\/a-pobbinn\/\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>\u00c9g labba ein heim eftir myrkur = I walk home alone after dark [<a href=\"https:\/\/stundin.is\/pistill\/ad-labba-ein-heim-eftir-myrkur\/\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Icelandic words meaning to walk include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>a\u00f0 ganga<\/strong> [a\u00f0 \u02c8kau\u014bka] = to walk, go on foot, to climb; to move, run, go; to go around, be passed on  [<a href=\"http:\/\/digicoll.library.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/IcelOnline\/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?type=entry&#038;eid=GANGA-2&#038;q1=ganga\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a\u00f0 ganga \u00e1 fjall = to climb a mountain<\/li>\n<li>vagninn gengur \u00e1 20 m\u00edn\u00fatna fresti = the bus runs every 20 minutes<\/li>\n<li>klukkan gengur = the clock is going<\/li>\n<li>v\u00e9lin gengur vel = the machine is running well<\/li>\n<li>sagan gengur = the story is going about<\/li>\n<li>\u00feetta gengur vel = this is coming along fine<\/li>\n<li>\u00feetta gengur ekki = this won&#8217;t work, this won&#8217;t do<\/li>\n<li>hva\u00f0 gengur \u00e1? = what&#8217;s going on?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This word comes from the Old Norse <em>ganga<\/em> (to go, walk), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*gangan\u0105<\/em> (to go, walk, step), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u01f5\u02b0eng\u02b0-<\/em> (to walk, step) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ganga\">source<\/a>]. This is also the root of the Old English words <em>gangan<\/em> (to go, walk, turn out) and <em>gang<\/em> (a journey; way; passage), which is used in some northern dialects of English to mean to go &#8211; e.g. in Geordie <em>gan yem<\/em> = go home [<a href=\"http:\/\/englandsnortheast.co.uk\/GeordieDictionary.html\">source<\/a>]. It&#8217;s modern meaning of a group of people probably comes from the idea of people travelling (ganging) together [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/gang\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>a\u00f0 tro\u00f0a<\/strong> [a\u00f0 \u02c8t\u02b0r\u0254\u02d0\u00f0a] =  to trample, tread on, step on; to tread, walk; to stuff, fill, pack; to press forward, elbow one&#8217;s way  [<a href=\"http:\/\/digicoll.library.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/IcelOnline\/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?type=simple&#038;size=First+100&#038;rgn=lemma&#038;q1=tro%F0a&#038;submit=Search\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>This word comes from the Old Norse <em>tro\u00f0a<\/em> (to tread, walk), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*trudan\u0105<\/em> (to tread, step on), which is also the root of the English words tread and trot.<\/p>\n<p><strong>a\u00f0 r\u00f6lta<\/strong> [a\u00f0 \u02c8r\u0153lta] =  to stroll, saunter [<a href=\"http:\/\/digicoll.library.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/IcelOnline\/IcelOnline.TEId-idx?type=simple&#038;size=First+100&#038;rgn=lemma&#038;q1=r%F6lta&#038;submit=Search\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the English word <strong>amble<\/strong> comes from the Old French <em>ambler<\/em> (to walk as a horse does), from the Old Proven\u00e7al <em>amblar<\/em>, from Latin <em>ambul\u014d<\/em> (I walk) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/amble\">source<\/a>], and <strong>stroll<\/strong> comes from the German <em>strollen<\/em>, a variant of the Alemannic German <em>strolchen<\/em>, from <em>Strolch<\/em> (vagabond; rascal) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/stroll\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Icelandic word I learnt recently is (a\u00f0) labba [\u02c8lap\u02d0a], which means &#8216;to walk slowly, to amble, to stroll&#8217; [source]. Here are a few examples of usage: M\u00e9r finnst gaman a\u00f0 labba um b\u00e6inn = I like to stroll around town Lj\u00faft finnst m\u00e9r a\u00f0 labba \u00e1 p\u00f6bbinn = I like to walk to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,116,124,10,36,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644","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=14644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}