{"id":21005,"date":"2021-05-28T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21005"},"modified":"2021-05-28T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T11:34:22","slug":"idle-blackberrying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21005","title":{"rendered":"Idle blackberrying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While putting together a post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/05\/26\/blackberries\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> this week, I came across the Welsh word <strong>mwyara<\/strong> [m\u028a\u0268\u032f\u02c8ara\/m\u028ai\u032f\u02c8a\u02d0ra], which means to gather\/pick blackberries, to go blackberrying, and also to be idle. I wouldn&#8217;t associate picking blackberries with being idle, but someone must have done in the past. Is picking blackberries or other fruit associated with idleness in other languages?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/websmith\/7444621308\/in\/photolist-ckRCxN-fs7xfr-acCycJ-3URhd-gLPHZE-ad5w7s-7ewp7G-9eaYA8-6Lo65p-6VspCi-6GSMu6-9Sv6Zw-3ie2uG-5c5Yh8-fw47AK-fhPGDP-cbXECs-hjNG4A-5ir9xm-eiAySt-5jM12J-gQFLe-BVtx4A-a8DZbL-addy6a-6PFonz-bMJEZx-ekgE4n-22UrQ8E-ppbeqR-n7U4tZ-cWE53d-nje41-2mvXkW-54AsVV-3kwmPL-28kaxrX-Hs8zLe-59Dqxw-aogHJ3-dxmGVB-2AqAbi-cJNrro-28kaxHP-ak2mgM-ouf28t-nwLppG-8wECiy-8shd1q-5wAZLj\" title=\"Blackberries\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8002\/7444621308_b248e3775d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Blackberries\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mwyara<\/strong> comes from <strong>mwyar<\/strong> (blackberries, berries), from the Proto-Brythonic <em>*mu\u0268ar<\/em> (blackberries, berries), from the Proto-Celtic <em>*smiyoros<\/em> (berries) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mwyar#Welsh\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Idle<\/strong> means to pass time doing nothing, to move, loiter or saunter aimlessy, or (<em>of a machine or engine<\/em>) to operate at a low speed [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/idle\">source<\/a>]. It comes from the Middle English <em>idel\/ydel<\/em>, from the Old English <em>\u012bdel<\/em> (empty, void, bereft, worthless, useless, vain), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*\u012bdalaz<\/em> (idle, void, unused), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*yeh\u2081-<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/idle\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same root include the Dutch <strong>ijdel<\/strong> (vain, idle, petty) and <strong>iel<\/strong> (thin, slender), the German <strong>eitel<\/strong> (vain), and the Welsh <strong>i\u00e2l<\/strong> (clearing, glade) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/%C4%ABdalaz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While putting together a post on the Celtiadur this week, I came across the Welsh word mwyara [m\u028a\u0268\u032f\u02c8ara\/m\u028ai\u032f\u02c8a\u02d0ra], which means to gather\/pick blackberries, to go blackberrying, and also to be idle. I wouldn&#8217;t associate picking blackberries with being idle, but someone must have done in the past. Is picking blackberries or other fruit associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,10,173,43,44,45,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-proto-brythonic","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005","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=21005"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21015,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21005\/revisions\/21015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}