{"id":18776,"date":"2020-01-31T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T10:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18776"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T15:15:21","slug":"drawing-and-dragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18776","title":{"rendered":"Drawing and Dragging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>withdrawal<\/strong> comes from withdraw, which, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/withdraw#English\">Wiktionary<\/a>, means,<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To pull back, aside or away<\/li>\n<li>To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around.<\/li>\n<li>To take back (a comment, etc).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&#8230; and a few other things.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>withdrawen<\/em> (to draw away, to draw back), from <em>with<\/em> (away, back), and <em>drawen<\/em> (to draw, drag, pull), which comes from the Old English <em>dra\u0121an<\/em> (to draw, pull, attract), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*dragan\u0105<\/em> (to draw, pull, carry), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u02b0reg\u02b0-<\/em> (to pull, draw, drag).  The word <strong>drag<\/strong> comes from the same root <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/d%CA%B0reg%CA%B0-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/18378305@N00\/37732504392\/in\/photolist-ZuhWYy-FYL7hb-uzNd8L-An4ppe-2brXu9L-EuTDvd-2gHd8RU-2hUX6Mo-2hGoy7b-nSLvUy-KHQQF-5GUFy8-9umrPu-Z1NSVu-2cTjYD1-jzL5p-n86shV-mXpoYJ-4UtssD-fegnCz-2hGvFYK-4XVFCW-2hP1YkQ-KLa8ym-9pGbtC-djYE5a-4RX6Y4-8sc8zW-2gEJ1xe-4UpYKz-5XwDKa-vMPKWd-4Uxre5-e9oyYG-z33Cxt-9YQne5-cwZRE-7axPef-cwYy8-abJS3B-8sc9W1-hDrCBG-hDspcn-f5Liim-nMfEWV-9XZ2at-pzF2ah-AHDsR8-4XVUCs-pzqVzB\" title=\"King James' Drawing Room\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4506\/37732504392_5281ed35ac_z.jpg\" alt=\"King James' Drawing Room\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The term <strong>withdrawing room<\/strong>, a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, dates from the 17th century, and was later abbreviated to <strong>drawing room<\/strong>. In some households there was a tradition until about the mid-20th century, that after a formal dinner, the ladies would withdraw to the drawing room, while the gentlemen remained in the dinning room to talk about things like politics, perhaps while smoking and drinking port or other beverages. After a respectable interval the gentlemen would join the ladies in the drawing room [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Drawing_room\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The modern equivalent of the drawing room might be called the living room in some houses, or perhaps the lounge. We called it the sitting room in the house I grew up in. What do you call it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>With<\/strong> as a prefix can mean: against or in opposition to, as in <strong>withstand<\/strong>. In <strong>withhold<\/strong> and <strong>withdraw<\/strong> it means back, back around, in reverse&#8221; or in return. The are other words with the with prefix, such as <strong>withbear<\/strong> (to carry\/bear away, gather, endure), <strong>withgo<\/strong> (to go against, give up), <strong>withgang<\/strong> (to indulge), and <strong>withjoin<\/strong> (to rebuke, withold, withstand), but they are obsolete and archaic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/with-#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word withdrawal comes from withdraw, which, according to Wiktionary, means, To pull back, aside or away To stop talking to, or interacting with, other people and start thinking thoughts that are not related to what is happening around. To take back (a comment, etc). &#8230; and a few other things. It comes from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776","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=18776"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18788,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18776\/revisions\/18788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}