{"id":20469,"date":"2021-01-20T17:44:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T17:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2021-01-23T21:21:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T21:21:16","slug":"bird-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"Bird Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>inauguration<\/strong> seems an appropriate one to investigate today. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inauguration\">Wiktionary<\/a>, it means \u201cThe act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.\u201d or \u201cThe formal beginning or initiation of any movement, enterprise, event etc.\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inauguration<\/strong> comes from the Middle French <em>inauguration<\/em> (installation, consecration), from the Latin Latin <em>inaugur\u0101ti\u014d<\/em> (consecration or installment under good omens), from the Latin <em>inaugur\u0101re<\/em> (to take auspices, take omens from the flights of birds, divine, consecate, install), from <em>in<\/em> (in, on) and <em>augur\u014d<\/em> (to prophesy, interpret omens), from <em>augur<\/em> (augur, soothsayer) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/inauguration\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The origins of <strong>augur<\/strong> are uncertain &#8211; it might come from <em>avis<\/em> (bird) and <em>garrire<\/em> (to talk). As augury involved observing the flight of birds and divining omens from it, this makes sense. Alternatively it might come from the Old Latin <em>*augus<\/em> (increase)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/inauguration\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, a <strong>soothsayer<\/strong> &#8211; one who predicts the future using magic, intuition or intelligence &#8211; originally meant one who tells the truth. It comes from <strong>sooth<\/strong> an old word for truth, augury, blandishment or reality, and <strong>sayer<\/strong>, one who says or makes announcements or a crier [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/soothsayer\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/birdtalk.mp3\">audio version of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/birdtalk.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/birdtalk.mp3\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\"><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word inauguration seems an appropriate one to investigate today. According to Wiktionary, it means \u201cThe act of inaugurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies.\u201d or \u201cThe formal beginning or initiation of any movement, enterprise, event etc.\u201d. Inauguration comes from the Middle French inauguration (installation, consecration), from the Latin Latin inaugur\u0101ti\u014d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,27,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-french","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469","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=20469"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20492,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions\/20492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}