{"id":15241,"date":"2018-03-08T19:11:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2018-03-08T19:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T18:11:14","slug":"the-road-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15241","title":{"rendered":"The Road Runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learnt that one way to say goodbye or farewell in Romanian is <strong>drum bun<\/strong>. This came up in a Duolingo lesson, and I translated it as &#8220;good road&#8221;, which is what it means literally. However that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s used.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/drum#Romanian\"><strong>Drum<\/strong><\/a> (road) comes from the Greek <em>\u03b4\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (dr\u00f3mos &#8211; road, track), from the Ancient Greek <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CE%B4%CF%81%CF%8C%CE%BC%CE%BF%CF%82#Greek\"><em>\u03b4\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2<\/em><\/a> (dr\u00f3mos &#8211; roadway, road, street, way; journey), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*drem-<\/em> (to run) + <em>-\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (-os).<\/p>\n<p><em>*Drem-<\/em> is also the root of the English <strong>drome<\/strong>, as in hippodrome, aerodrome, velodrome, anadrome, syndrome and palindrome.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re wondering, an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/anadrome#English\"><strong>anadrome<\/strong><\/a> is a word which forms a different word when spelled backwards, such as desserts and stressed. They are also known as volvograms, reversgrams, heteropalindromes, backwords, semordnilap or emordnilaps, or semordnilaps [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/lists\/anadromes\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other anadromes in English include spar \/ raps, star \/ rats, bus \/ sub, nip \/ pin, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Can you think of others in English or other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learnt that one way to say goodbye or farewell in Romanian is drum bun. This came up in a Duolingo lesson, and I translated it as &#8220;good road&#8221;, which is what it means literally. However that&#8217;s not how it&#8217;s used. Drum (road) comes from the Greek \u03b4\u03c1\u03cc\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2 (dr\u00f3mos &#8211; road, track), from 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":[104,107,10,45,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-proto-indo-european","category-romanian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241","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=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}