{"id":18496,"date":"2019-11-13T17:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18496"},"modified":"2019-11-13T17:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T17:40:38","slug":"cheese-juice-and-porridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18496","title":{"rendered":"Cheese, Juice and Porridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In North Germanic languages such as Swedish, the word for cheese is <strong>ost<\/strong>, or something similar. Since I learnt this, I&#8217;ve been wondering where it comes from, so I decided to investige.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ost<\/strong> comes from the Old Norse <em>ostr<\/em> (cheese), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*justaz<\/em> (cheese), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*yewH-s-<\/em> (sap, juice, broth), from <em>*yewH-<\/em> (to blend, mix (food), knead).<\/p>\n<p>From the same root we get the Latin word <em>i\u016bs<\/em> (gravy, broth, soup, sauce, juice), from which we get the English <strong>juice<\/strong>, the French <em>jus<\/em> (juice), and the Welsh <em>uwd<\/em> [\u0268\u031eu\u032fd \/ \u026au\u032fd] (porridge, oatmeal).<\/p>\n<p>Words for cheese in Finnic and Samic languages are also related: <em>juusto<\/em> in Finnish, <em>juust<\/em> in Estonian, and <em>vuost\u00e1<\/em> in Northern Sami.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/53110476@N05\/26906701790\/in\/photolist-GZDT2y-bychVx-byciLx-bycipT-946XuM-bkhpfq-bkhpB9-bkhoif-udL3ud-7VLAsd-2gHD25Z-bkhoUC-dvhWo3-n6on-dnx7mh-5mt3bG-n6nU-8xQhcw-bVikcW-96H2dM-MAcn4H-MAccuT-3ApGur-k6s91a-bLtnhF-4UakuA-4wkoUn-5uXUA-21rExbP-tQQWgR-aaekqg-a2jfgL-8cc8vP-2epNdME-592gS3-9QFY1C-b7hJZx-6Yoesp-8xQgWQ-4tnno6-4nGhKu-ajLcuP-9QD7PK-6JpFMw-gwczkv-ebVQay-9ikxga-Tytn91-2hjwdNM-e5ZiZx\" title=\"Brunost\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7496\/26906701790_3f2cc42bf0_z.jpg\" alt=\"Brunost\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In North Germanic languages such as Swedish, the word for cheese is ost, or something similar. Since I learnt this, I&#8217;ve been wondering where it comes from, so I decided to investige. Ost comes from the Old Norse ostr (cheese), from the Proto-Germanic *justaz (cheese), from the Proto-Indo-European *yewH-s- (sap, juice, broth), from *yewH- (to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,106,107,109,111,10,36,44,45,156,67,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-estonian","category-etymology","category-finnish","category-french","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-sami","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496","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=18496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18502,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18496\/revisions\/18502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}