{"id":14972,"date":"2017-12-22T13:43:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14972"},"modified":"2017-12-22T13:43:23","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T12:43:23","slug":"bittersweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14972","title":{"rendered":"Bittersweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/chutney.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Chutney\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When looking for the French word for chutney last night we discovered the word <em>aigre<\/em> (sour), and realised that vinegar, or <em>vinaigre<\/em> in French, must be wine (<em>vin<\/em>) that is sour (<em>aigre<\/em>). This is indeed the origin of vinegar and <em>vinaigre<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><em>Vin<\/em> (wine) comes from the Latin <em>v\u012bnum<\/em> (wine, grapes, grapevine), from Proto-Italic <em>*w\u012bnom<\/em> (wine), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*w\u00f3yh\u2081nom<\/em> (wine).<\/p>\n<p><em>Aigre<\/em> (sour, sharp, acid, shrill) comes from the Old French, from Vulgar Latin <em>*acrus<\/em> \/ <em>*acrum<\/em>, from the Classical Latin <em>acer<\/em> \/ <em>acrem<\/em> (sharp, sour, bitter), from Proto-Italic <em>*akris<\/em> (sharp, sour), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*h\u2082\u1e31r\u00f3s<\/em> (sharp).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chutney\"><strong>Chutney<\/strong><\/a> is a sauce made from fruit and\/or vegetables preserved with vinegar and sugar. The word comes from the Hindi \u091a\u091f\u0928\u0940 (catn\u012b \/ chatnee &#8211; to lick). In French it is <em>chutney<\/em>, <em>\u00e9pice<\/em> or <em>salade piquante<\/em>, and is defined as &#8220;<em>condiment aigre-doux<\/em>&#8221; (bittersweet condiment), which is where I found the word <em>aigre<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When looking for the French word for chutney last night we discovered the word aigre (sour), and realised that vinegar, or vinaigre in French, must be wine (vin) that is sour (aigre). This is indeed the origin of vinegar and vinaigre. Vin (wine) comes from the Latin v\u012bnum (wine, grapes, grapevine), from Proto-Italic *w\u012bnom (wine), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,122,10,15,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-hindi","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972","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=14972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}