{"id":20818,"date":"2021-04-14T16:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20818"},"modified":"2021-04-14T16:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T16:12:14","slug":"penny-pouches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20818","title":{"rendered":"Penny Pouches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Danish word I learnt today is <strong>pung<\/strong>, which means purse, wallet, pouch or scrotum. It comes from the Old Norse word <em>pungr<\/em> (purse) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pung#Danish\">source<\/a>], and appears in words like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>punge = to pay (a large) sum of money<\/li>\n<li>pengepung = wallet, purse, budget, pockets, funding (&#8220;money-pouch&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>pungdyr = marsupial (&#8220;pouch-animal&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>pungdj\u00e6vel = Tasmanian devil (<em>Sarcophilus harrisii<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>pungulv = Thylacine, Tasmanian tiger\/wolf (<em>Thylacinus cynocephalus<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>pungbrok = hernia [<a href=\"https:\/\/ordnet.dk\/ddo\/ordbog?query=pung\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kulturtorvet\/3659870083\/in\/photolist-6zpMSk-nm4Dmw-7o8Eww-dePSRs-dePSTq-dePT19-nm4DxJ-no7xrD-dePSWu-dePSYm-dePTb2-qziJu-7RUe5F-dePTdz-dePSV9-dePSJw-dePSHw-dePTpR-dePTnT-dePSNN-dePSGG-dePSMN-dePSVU-dePTgB-dePSQq-dePTiX-dePT9V-28Z4qzy-auxDQ6-2bUj9Qf-NkeJEt-PXhNcu-2chFm1h-47tbj6-d7R8pq-2cbiCM3-MAtfrK-NdxwwX-29F92uf-2bUfXsS-29F8RGQ-2asHT56-XQ8X4F-YrUYwh-Vait2U-XzaDAs-XzayjW-PHbfAj-5WduCF-fdZSAb\" title=\"Pengepung\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2428\/3659870083_d0f90581aa_z.jpg\" alt=\"Pengepung\" width=\"640\" height=\"466\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>penge<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u02b0\u025b\u014b\u0259 \/ \u02c8p\u02b0\u025b\u014b\u014b\u0329] means money, and was originally a plural of <strong>penning<\/strong> (coin), from the Old Danish <em>p\u00e6nning<\/em>, Old Norse <em>peningr<\/em> (coin, penny, piece of property, article)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/penge\">source<\/a>], which was borrowed from the Old Saxon <em>penning<\/em> or the Old English <em>penning\/peni\u0121<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*panningaz<\/em> (coin) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/penning#Danish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some related expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>pengeafpresning = extortion, extraction<\/li>\n<li>pengekat = neck pouch<\/li>\n<li>pengepolitik = monetary policy<\/li>\n<li>pengeseddel = bill, banknote [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/danish-english\/penge\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the same root we get the English words <strong>penny<\/strong> and <strong>pence<\/strong>, the Irish word <strong>pingin<\/strong> (penny), the Dutch <strong>penning<\/strong> (medal, commemoration coin; money, cash), the German <strong>Pfennig<\/strong> (pfennig, penny), the Swedish words <strong>penning<\/strong> (coin, penny, money, cash), <strong>pengar<\/strong> (money) and <strong>peng<\/strong> (coin, money), and related words in other Germanic languages  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/panningaz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I carry my cash, cards and other bits and bobs in a wallet. How about you? If you use a pecunary receptacle, what do you call it, and what do you keep in it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Danish word I learnt today is pung, which means purse, wallet, pouch or scrotum. It comes from the Old Norse word pungr (purse) [source], and appears in words like: punge = to pay (a large) sum of money pengepung = wallet, purse, budget, pockets, funding (&#8220;money-pouch&#8221;) pungdyr = marsupial (&#8220;pouch-animal&#8221;) pungdj\u00e6vel = Tasmanian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,116,127,10,36,44,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-germanic","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818","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=20818"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20830,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20818\/revisions\/20830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}