{"id":17746,"date":"2019-04-19T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2019-04-19T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T13:30:20","slug":"thatched-stegosauruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17746","title":{"rendered":"Thatched Stegosauruses!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do <strong>togas<\/strong>, <strong>stegosauruses<\/strong> and <strong>thatch<\/strong>  have in common?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rhubarble\/268589039\/in\/photolist-34wgxZ-7JeXnw-Av5CJo-d9uEts-49TkiL-pJAav-cZAEDf-9rsm1Y-mnoTS-bWMuCk-6GjY24-MftDw-9KDnd3-9KDkwY-fnh15X-9NtJBH-9whwBn-5Ygi1r-ce9NRW-8E7Ya-9ij9kJ-fiHH76-bWMsxe-4EFDR-5Qh41x-cHvg-fiXMdY-3aPvH7-6eZNdU-fiXZqY-dCcnDn-3DHKw2-21cfycu-dR1ex4-agzDBD-9yEiUa-DqpM7k-iLGDVH-bt5bYb-cVJMwJ-cq3n2N-4eeaWz-z7uuY7-DVgpsG-Ntc9Yk\" title=\"Stegasaurus\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/105\/268589039_4c91602a9d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stegasaurus\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"\/><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These words all come from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*(s)teg-<\/em> (cover, roof) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/(s)teg-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toga<\/strong> comes from the Latin <em>togateg\u014d<\/em> (I clothe) , from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*tog\u00e9h\u2082<\/em> (cover), from <em>*(s)teg-<\/em> (to cover)   [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/toga\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stegosaurus<\/strong> comes from the Ancient Greek words <em>\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (st\u00e9gos &#8211; roof) and <em>\u03c3\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> (sa\u00fbros &#8211; lizard) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Stegosaurus#English\">source<\/a>], and <em>\u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> comes from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*(s)teg-<\/em> (cover, roof)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CF%83%CF%84%CE%AD%CE%B3%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek\">source<\/a>]. The origins of <em>\u03c3\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2<\/em> are uncertain. So a stegosaurus is a \u201croof lizard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thatch<\/strong> comes from the Old English <em>\u00fe\u00e6c<\/em> (roof-covering), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*\u00feak\u0105<\/em> (covering), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)teg-<\/em> (to cover)   [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/thatch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for house in the Celtic languages also come ultimately from the same root &#8211; <em>t\u0177<\/em> (Welsh) <em>chi<\/em> (Cornish), <em>ti<\/em> (Breton), <em>teach<\/em> (Irish), <em>taigh<\/em> (Scottish Gaelic) and <em>thie<\/em> (Manx). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/04\/19\/houses-and-dwellings\">More details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do togas, stegosauruses and thatch have in common? These words all come from the Proto-Indo-European root *(s)teg- (cover, roof) [source]. Toga comes from the Latin togateg\u014d (I clothe) , from the Proto-Indo-European *tog\u00e9h\u2082 (cover), from *(s)teg- (to cover) [source]. Stegosaurus comes from the Ancient Greek words \u03c3\u03c4\u03ad\u03b3\u03bf\u03c2 (st\u00e9gos &#8211; roof) and \u03c3\u03b1\u1fe6\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 (sa\u00fbros &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,107,118,127,10,15,23,33,44,45,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","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=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}