{"id":20801,"date":"2021-04-08T14:49:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20801"},"modified":"2021-04-08T14:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:49:53","slug":"fire-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20801","title":{"rendered":"Fire Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have red or ginger hair in the Netherlands or Dutch-speaking parts of Belgium you might be called a <strong>vuurtoren<\/strong> [\u02c8vy\u02d0r\u02ccto\u02d0.r\u0259(n)], or literally a &#8220;fire tower&#8221;. This is apparently a rather rude way to refer to redheads. Other ways include <strong>roodhaar<\/strong> (red-hair), <strong>roodharige<\/strong> (red-haired), <strong>rosse<\/strong> (red), or <strong>rossekop<\/strong> (red-head) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vuurtoren\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/14926676242\/in\/album-72157674487109324\/\" title=\"Highland cows \/ B\u00f2 Gh\u00e0idhealach \/ Hielan coo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5560\/14926676242_a2ccd3a57d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Highland cows \/ B\u00f2 Gh\u00e0idhealach \/ Hielan coo\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As well as meaning redhead, <strong>vuurtoren<\/strong> also means lighthouse or beacon, and was a nickname for the old 250 Guilder note, which had a lighthouse on it. Another name for a lighthouse is a <strong>lichttoren<\/strong>, and a lighthouse keeper is a <strong>vuurtorenwachter<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21118056@N08\/2048353450\/in\/photolist-481m7N-nh99X4-ngRTpi-nf6MAU-niUz7v-dbm5Dz-nhbkeS-nf6EBy-ngRUTa-niUyMc-nf6N9C-ngRToY-rrAdsU-2dmeVeU-6Wiced-SMckzj-GjxEdR-4emEVM-796cus-cZyk6b-bs2gRg-5B7zxy-2kEEn9V-LS6KDe-2kdSZZH-2jJvLm8-6BvS9-2inU2B4-fASs2p-8a2PUx-5pE7KW-ngRMFf-UcoP8m-8aytTS-6XcJe6-niUtcp-6cJwGD-nhbpVq-niUxB6-2o8XTE-6XcJkD-78t1MT-aiNsTK-6Z2zFy-BVzydh-n3Mmre-T4DALM-fASrTr-6cJwQK-fB7KNE\" title=\"Vuurtoren, De Cocksdorp, Texel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2418\/2048353450_f3325508ec_z.jpg\" alt=\"Vuurtoren, De Cocksdorp, Texel\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Vuur<\/strong> (fire, heat, heater, lighter) comes from the Middle Dutch <em>vuur<\/em> (fire, bonfire, passion), from Old Dutch <em>fuir<\/em> (fire), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*fuir<\/em> (fire), from Proto-Germanic <em>*f\u014dr<\/em> (fire), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European <em>*p\u00e9h\u2082wr\u0325<\/em> (fire) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vuur#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toren<\/strong> (tower, rook (in chess)) comes the Middle Dutch <em>torre<\/em> (tower), from the Old Dutch <em>turn<\/em> (tower), from the Old French <em>tur\/tor<\/em> (tower), from the Latin <em>turris<\/em> (tower, rook), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03c4\u03cd\u03c1\u03c1\u03b9\u03c2<\/em> (t\u00farrhis &#8211; tower) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/toren#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A YouTube Channel I found recently is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCoT2EhKDzP6kjTdIMD1vInw\">Linguriosa<\/a>, which is run by a redheaded Spanish lass (una pelirroja) who makes interesting and funny videos about the Spanish language. She talks clearly and not too fast, so it&#8217;s great if you&#8217;re learning Spanish, as I am at the moment, or are a fluent speaker. Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CnHPFTBvUA8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you know of similar channels in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have red or ginger hair in the Netherlands or Dutch-speaking parts of Belgium you might be called a vuurtoren [\u02c8vy\u02d0r\u02ccto\u02d0.r\u0259(n)], or literally a &#8220;fire tower&#8221;. This is apparently a rather rude way to refer to redheads. Other ways include roodhaar (red-hair), roodharige (red-haired), rosse (red), or rossekop (red-head) [source]. As well as meaning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,102,104,107,10,15,182,203,34,44,45,202,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-old-dutch","category-old-french","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801","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=20801"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20814,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20801\/revisions\/20814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}