{"id":20259,"date":"2020-12-03T21:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20259"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:08:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T21:08:46","slug":"small-trinkets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20259","title":{"rendered":"Small Trinkets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you mislay your bijou bijous you could say that have a bijou problemette.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/34597555@N07\/27537670485\/in\/photolist-HXpL3a-TECUGr-7BETKj-g28UE-22UGd1F-m8Na-cLGA-cLGy-2jfh66k-q2VR-cLGH-m8M2-cLwU-cLE5-o7Mab7-m8Mo-q2Vc-nKFcye-H2Fxv-c8cKJs-5ow8fm-cLE9-cLGJ-m8MS-m8M6-cLGz-9i4nvK-cLBb-cLwN-nSJ8uc-AAzTN-cLwK-cLB9-8DeXHJ-8A37bs-8Av3ry-2hDr9-nX9m68-2hDcu-nvtpy5-2hDrc-ae5UJ1-2hDrb-zRh5Ba-qBTqT-MH27te-qvLHTN-qvEwhx-qegDVh-qvLHWU\" title=\"bijoux\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7749\/27537670485_f4d4f9340f_z.jpg\" alt=\"bijoux\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>bijou<\/strong> can mean small and elegant (of a residence &#8211; often ironic),<br \/>\nintricate or finely made, or a jewel, a piece of jewellry; a trinket or a small intricate piece of metalwork. In the above sentence <strong>bijou bijous<\/strong> means &#8216;finely made jewelery&#8217;, and a <strong>bijou problemette<\/strong> means &#8216;a little problem&#8217;, an example of British understatement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bijou<\/strong>, as jewellery, comes from the French <em>bijou<\/em> (a piece of jewellery), from the Breton <em>bizo\u00f9<\/em> (ring), from <em>biz<\/em> (finger), from the Proto-Celtic <em>*bistis<\/em> (finger) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bijou#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bijou<\/strong>, as in small and elegant, etc, comes from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mediterranean_Lingua_Franca\">Mediterranean Lingua Franca (Sabir)<\/a> <em>bijou<\/em>, from the Occitan <em>pichon<\/em> (small, little), from the Late Latin <em>pitinnus<\/em>, possibly from Proto-Celtic <em>*k\u02b7ezdis<\/em> (piece, portion) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bijou#English\">source<\/a>], which is also the root of <strong>peth<\/strong> (thing, object) in Welsh, <strong>cuid<\/strong> (part portion) in Irish, and related words in other Celtic languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you mislay your bijou bijous you could say that have a bijou problemette. The word bijou can mean small and elegant (of a residence &#8211; often ironic), intricate or finely made, or a jewel, a piece of jewellry; a trinket or a small intricate piece of metalwork. In the above sentence bijou bijous means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,127,10,15,32,43,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-occitan","category-proto-celtic","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259","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=20259"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20276,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20259\/revisions\/20276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}