{"id":1970,"date":"2009-12-04T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2009-12-04T16:55:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T16:55:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-cawl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; cawl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <strong>cawl<\/strong> \/kaul\/, is a Welsh word meaning soup, broth, gruel or a mess. <\/p>\n<p>Cawl is also a traditional Welsh stew made with meat and vegetables. It&#8217;s the kind of dish that&#8217;s made from whatever is available so the exact ingredients vary, but it often includes lamb and leeks, and is often served with bread and cheese. There a recipe for cawl and more information <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/wales\/mid\/sites\/food\/pages\/cawlcennin.shtml\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The word <em>cawl<\/em> probably comes from the Latin <em>caulis<\/em>, which means the stalk of a plant, a cabbage stalk or a cabbage. It is related to the Irish <em>c\u00e1l<\/em>, the Scottish Gaelic <em>c\u00e0l<\/em>, the Cornish <em>caul<\/em>, the Breton <em>kaol<\/em>, the German <em>Kohl<\/em>, the English cole, as in coleslaw, and the Scots <em>kail<\/em>, all of which mean cabbage. The Welsh word for cabbage is completely different &#8211; <em>bresychen<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Proto-Indo-European root of <em>caulis<\/em> is <em>*kaw(\u01dd)l<\/em>, which means tubular bone or pipe. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, cawl \/kaul\/, is a Welsh word meaning soup, broth, gruel or a mess. Cawl is also a traditional Welsh stew made with meat and vegetables. It&#8217;s the kind of dish that&#8217;s made from whatever is available so the exact ingredients vary, but it often includes lamb and leeks, and is often served with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,107,116,127,10,55,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-scots","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","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=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}