{"id":20679,"date":"2021-03-17T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20679"},"modified":"2021-03-21T14:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T14:57:45","slug":"soul-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20679","title":{"rendered":"Soul Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch word <strong>dier<\/strong> [di\u02d0r \/ di\u0259r] means animal and is cognate with the English word <strong>deer<\/strong>, which originally meant animal, but the meaning narrowed over time. They are also cognate with words for animal in other Germanic languages, such as <strong>Tier<\/strong> in German, <strong>dyr<\/strong> in Danish and Norwegian, <strong>d\u00fdr<\/strong> in Faroese and Icelandic, and <strong>djur<\/strong> in Swedish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/deuz%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/magnetismus\/19249647993\/in\/photolist-vk2tGD-mEFPNe-cqHpX-px5FpW-oHos5z-oBeKnf-7V6jAH-bw8RNo-oHUyP7-rjgrtH-oKEBYp-7bMGuT-saJAGi-px7rAT-o6W9cK-bJX4AH-ak3BAC-22qVWEJ-UB9meE-53BwrQ-a7mRGc-7ggNtq-UB9kdw-mgJiA-fz78o5-rvnYge-otrYPG-6xS9gh-9DZNnP-5XjDrF-bcHnAV-8irN4T-7uprx8-oKEBWk-866hy8-7oUtR6-6Bx5z5-4YR3Ej-6QYywg-6rXwEa-7gcUHr-54ZHFJ-efYW4x-5pdMLS-7kyJct-wvWqWX-5NaZ1u-6BsVAV-7gcVFz-5pdMNo\" title=\"deer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/414\/19249647993_657a86550d_z.jpg\" alt=\"deer\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dier<\/strong> comes from the Middle Dutch <em>dier<\/em> (animal), from the Old Dutch <em>dier<\/em> (animal), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*deu\u0280<\/em> ((wild) animal, beast), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*deuz\u0105<\/em> ((wild) animal, beast), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u02b0ews\u00f3m<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dier#Dutch\">source<\/a>], from <em>*d\u02b0ews-<\/em> (to breathe, breath, spirit, soul, creature) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/d%CA%B0wes-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>dierdicht = poem about anthropomorphised animals<\/li>\n<li>dierenarts = vet (<em>mainly one who treats pets<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>dierenrijk = animal kingdom<\/li>\n<li>dierentuin = zoo<\/li>\n<li>dierkunde = zoology<\/li>\n<li>dierlijk = animal, beastly, instinctive, primitive<\/li>\n<li>huisdier = pet<\/li>\n<li>landbouwhuisdier = farm animal<\/li>\n<li>zoogdier = mammal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Deer<\/strong> comes from the same root, via the Middle English <em>deere, dere, der, dier, deor<\/em> (small animal, deer), from the Old English <em>d\u0113or<\/em> (animal) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/deer#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>From the PIE root <em>*d\u02b0ews-<\/em> we also get the Russian word <strong>\u0434\u0443\u0448\u0430<\/strong> [d\u028a\u02c8\u0282a] (soul, spirit, darling), via the Old East Slavic <strong>\u0434\u043e\u0443\u0448\u0430<\/strong> (du\u0161a &#8211; soul), and the Proto-Slavic <strong>*du\u0161a<\/strong> (soul, spirit), and related words in other slavic languages.<\/p>\n<p>Another Dutch word for animal is <strong>beest<\/strong> [be\u02d0st] which is cognate with the English word <strong>beast<\/strong>. Both come from the same PIE root as <strong>dier\/deer<\/strong> (<em>*d\u02b0ews-<\/em>): <strong>beest<\/strong> via the Middle Dutch <em>beeste<\/em> (animal), from the Old French <em>beste<\/em> (beast, animal), from the Latin <em>b\u0113stia<\/em> (beast) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/beest#Dutch\">source<\/a>], and <strong>beast<\/strong> via the Middle English <em>beeste, beste<\/em> (animal, creature, beast, merciless person) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/beest#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>feestbeest = party animal<\/li>\n<li>knuffelbeest = stuffed toy animal (&#8220;cuddle-beast&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>podiumbeest = someone who enjoys being on stage and is often on stage<\/li>\n<li>wildebeest = wildebeest, gnu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The English word <strong>animal<\/strong> is also related to souls and spirits as it comes via Middle English and Old French, from the Latin <em>anima<\/em> (soul, spirit, life, air, breeze, breath) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/animal#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch word for <strong>deer<\/strong> is <strong>hert<\/strong> [\u0266\u025brt], which comes from the Old Dutch <em>hirot<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*herutaz<\/em> (deer, stag), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*\u1e31erh\u2082-<\/em> (horn).  The English word <strong>hart<\/strong> comes from the same root via the Old English <em>heorot<\/em> (stag), and means a male deer, especially a male red deer after his fifth year  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hert#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/souldeer.mp3\">audio version of this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/souldeer.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/videos\/souldeer.mp3\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\"><\/audio><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch word dier [di\u02d0r \/ di\u0259r] means animal and is cognate with the English word deer, which originally meant animal, but the meaning narrowed over time. They are also cognate with words for animal in other Germanic languages, such as Tier in German, dyr in Danish and Norwegian, d\u00fdr in Faroese and Icelandic, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,108,116,124,10,15,182,26,31,176,33,34,44,45,47,52,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-east-slavic","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-french","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-slavic","category-russian","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679","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=20679"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20719,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20679\/revisions\/20719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}