{"id":18939,"date":"2020-03-14T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18939"},"modified":"2020-03-14T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:01:39","slug":"forest-picnics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18939","title":{"rendered":"Forest Picnics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Danish word I learnt this week is <strong>skovtur<\/strong>, which means a picnic or outing, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/danish-english\/skovtur\">bab.la<\/a>, or a &#8220;picnic (social gathering), not necessarily in a forest&#8221;, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/skovtur\">Wiktionary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sorenlundsgaard\/7159709897\/in\/photolist-bUFoj6-bUFJLz-cc3K1W-cc3pgj-cc3L8d-cc3WP1-bUFHEe-bUFFqk-cc3TMJ-bUFStD-cc3UoS-cc3Jod-bUFqjM-cc4dpW-bUFJdt-bUFx9M-cc4yQh-9tFBUE-bUFf28-bUFBQB-bUFvYK-bUFQwc-cc3xwo-cc3VDu-cc3SzA-cc3S23-cc3Mhy-bUGkWT-bUFDwg-cc3HMS-cc4kNU-cc4qRS-aiAjC-aiAhr-aiAkQ-aEnH7R-aEntik-aiAiK-aiAgJ-aUPxt-dx3rGN-LJe2E6-fAdsRP-fAsLRb-bHuzUi-4r4MnC-MeCi63-MeCizj-o8W8FL-MvxgX7\" title=\"Grundlovs skovtur 2012\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7081\/7159709897_812eeac563_z.jpg\" alt=\"Grundlovs skovtur 2012\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Wiktionary mentions a forest because this word is a portmanteau of <strong>skov<\/strong> (forest, woods), and <strong>tur<\/strong> (turn, trip, journey, walk, move, tour, stroll, outing). So it could be poetically translated at &#8220;forest trip\/outing&#8221;. This gives me the idea that picnics in Denmark often take place in forests, or at least did in the past. Is this true? Er det sandt?<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>skov<\/strong> comes from the Old Norse <em>sk\u00f3gr<\/em> (wood, forest), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*sk\u014dgaz<\/em> (forest, wood), which is also the root of the word <em>scaw \/ skaw<\/em> (promontry) in some English dialects. The name of England&#8217;s highest mountain, Scafell Pike (formerly Scawfell), includes it, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>tur<\/strong> comes from the French <em>tour<\/em> (to go, turn), from the Old French <em>tor<\/em> (tower), from the Latin <em>turris, turrem<\/em> (tower), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03c4\u03cd\u03c1\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2<\/em> (t\u00farrhis &#8211; tower), possibly from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*tauro<\/em> (mountain, hill, tall structure).<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>picnic<\/strong> is also used in Danish. It comes, via English, from the French <em>pique-nique<\/em>, from <em>piquer<\/em> (to pick) and <em>nique<\/em> (small thing) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pique-nique#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Do other languages have interesting words for picnics?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Danish word I learnt this week is skovtur, which means a picnic or outing, according to bab.la, or a &#8220;picnic (social gathering), not necessarily in a forest&#8221;, according to Wiktionary. Wiktionary mentions a forest because this word is a portmanteau of skov (forest, woods), and tur (turn, trip, journey, walk, move, tour, stroll, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,111,118,10,15,34,36,44,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-old-french","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939","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=18939"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18950,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18939\/revisions\/18950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}