{"id":19486,"date":"2020-07-15T17:01:15","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T17:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2025-08-07T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T12:17:03","slug":"job-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19486","title":{"rendered":"Job Tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In English you might talk about <strong>career paths<\/strong>, meaning &#8220;the way that you progress in your work, either in one job or in a series of jobs&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/career-path\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/31483197394\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Stile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/520\/31483197394_e0d352646a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Stile\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In Dutch there is one word &#8211; <strong>baan<\/strong> [ba\u02d0n] &#8211; that means both job and path. So you might think that a <strong>career path<\/strong> in Dutch would be a <strong>baanbaan<\/strong>, but it is in fact a <strong>carri\u00e8re<\/strong>, <strong>carri\u00e8repad<\/strong> or <strong>loopbaan<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-dutch\/career+path\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>baan<\/strong> is a road, way or path; a track or lane; a job or professional occupation, or a sports field or court.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle Dutch <em>bane<\/em> (open field, battlefield; lane, track; road, way, path), from the Old Dutch <em>*bana<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*bano<\/em> (battlefield, clearing, open space, cleared way, path, track), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b7\u02b0en-<\/em> (to strike, kill) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/baan#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English words <strong>defend<\/strong> and <strong>offend<\/strong> actually come from the same root, via the Latin <em>*fend\u014d<\/em> (I hit, thrust)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/defend\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in Dutch include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>banen = to make way, clear<\/li>\n<li>baanbrekend = revolutionary, earthshaking (&#8220;path-breaking&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>bijbaan = side job, sideline, job on the side<\/li>\n<li>busbaan = bus lane<\/li>\n<li>droombaan = dream job, perfect job<\/li>\n<li>hondenbaan = a really bad job, dog&#8217;s work<\/li>\n<li>landingsbaan = runway, airstrip<\/li>\n<li>loopbaan = career, career path<\/li>\n<li>rijbaan = lane, carriageway<\/li>\n<li>enkelbaans = one-way (road)<\/li>\n<li>tweebaans = two-way (road)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words in other Germanic languages include the German <strong>Bahn<\/strong> (route, trail, rail(way), train, tram, lane, orbit), the Danish <strong>bane<\/strong> (track, trajectory), and the Swedish <strong>bana<\/strong> (path, race, track, railway, career, life) {<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/ban%C5%8D\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carri\u00e8re<\/strong> comes from the French <em>carri\u00e8re<\/em> (career, riding arena, racecourse), from the Italian <em>carriera<\/em> (career, the fastest gait), from the Latin Latin <em>carr\u0101ria<\/em> (a wide road for vehicles, a path for carts) from the Latin <em>carrus<\/em> (wagon, cart, cartload, wagonload), from the Gaulish <em>*karros<\/em> (wagon), from the Proto-Celtic <em>*karros<\/em> (wagon) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/carri%C3%A8re\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In English you might talk about career paths, meaning &#8220;the way that you progress in your work, either in one job or in a series of jobs&#8221; [source]. In Dutch there is one word &#8211; baan [ba\u02d0n] &#8211; that means both job and path. So you might think that a career path in Dutch would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,111,114,116,128,10,15,182,43,44,45,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-gaulish","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486","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=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24154,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions\/24154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}