{"id":21073,"date":"2021-06-15T17:39:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21073"},"modified":"2021-07-01T20:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T20:28:45","slug":"longhaired-kites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21073","title":{"rendered":"Longhaired Kites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Spanish word I learnt today is <strong>cometa<\/strong> [ko\u02c8meta], which means both kite and comet. It comes from the Latin word <em>com\u0113ta<\/em>, an alternative version of <em>com\u0113t\u0113s<\/em> (comet, meteor, shooting star; portent of disaster), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03ae\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/em> (kom\u1e17t\u0113s, &#8211; longhaired, comet), which refers to the tail of a comet, from <em>\u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u1fb0\u0301\u03c9<\/em> (kom\u00e1\u014d &#8211; let the hair grow long) and <em>-\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2<\/em> (-t\u0113s &#8211; a suffix that forms nouns) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cometa#Spanish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/krisadam\/25931965972\/in\/photolist-Fvw72A-pysy3e-66ajJb-2jn7KDZ-JGH6g-6atvQS-78xfnC-N7jUp-47fRGt-3pS5jJ-3P4wm-beY2k-4BK68-24hhFWm-5HjWAM-c6Rfxd-y84ET-6RWUuC-6RWUsw-yhwej-6RSRJa-fAiweP-cxRv1-Gf2zCi-6667Vt-6RSRS2-6RWUq3-6RSRxg-6RWUtL-FvvdtJ-FMrSc3-6RSRze-6RWUoY-6RSRUp-6RWUAb-F1mLNi-6RWUkm-6RWUCu-6RSRQp-6RSRXZ-6RSRAn-F1bdbf-6RSRPg-6RWUcd-6RWUgj-6RWUeh-6RSRWZ-6RSRNa-GiKpmh-663J88\" title=\"Cometas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1599\/25931965972_2212a410ba_z.jpg\" alt=\"Cometas\" width=\"640\" height=\"231\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>cometa voladora = hang gilder<\/li>\n<li>hacer volar una cometa = to fly a kite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other words for kite in Spanish include [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spanishdict.com\/translate\/kite\">source<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>papalote<\/strong> in Cuba, Honduras, Mexico, from the Classical Nahuatl <em>p\u0101pal\u014dtl<\/em> (butterfly) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/papalote\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>barrilete<\/strong> in Argentina, Nicaragua, a diminutive of <strong>barril<\/strong> (barrel) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/barrilete\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>piscucha<\/strong> or <strong>papalota<\/strong> in El Salvador &#8211; the former of unknown origin. The latter from Classical Nahuatl like <strong>papalote<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>volant\u00edn<\/strong> in Peru, Chile, Argentina, probably from <strong>volar<\/strong> (to fly)<\/li>\n<li><strong>chiringa<\/strong> in Puerto Rico, probably a version of <strong>chiringo<\/strong> which means small in Puerto Rico and Cuba [<a href=\"http:\/\/etimologias.dechile.net\/?chiringa\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there any other words for kite in other Spanish-speaking countries?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/amylloyd\/10359254725\/in\/photolist-gMpTw6-wL6Ruq-mxYmRV-aoSbeq-CNhC7e-4xbbQw-bHZ9Mx-aoSatA-94BLRy-88zQEq-n7gHjd-yCVeu5-QTekBT-bHZ6Vt-HVAiuC-ZqF5bJ-7J5GPW-bHZ8Ap-ZKhpTB-kUrTJ1-rVbK4M-LmBvRd-mYiBRd-dhQrZ6-L5GLyo-Cx8VHS-fKVxTo-mYgHtZ-bjzFcN-e24sYK-KzhAd8-rZyubo-L5C3ss-fMpfKk-nSNYgJ-nKcPsU-pbzWna-rfQ9PM-rTFgUP-99QUZd-yHH968-a3TwBq-mYgCBz-9Nx8XY-BLRGEt-nTge9S-zDvWxW-6i7Prk-9vwQHK-QJkGjP\" title=\"Red Kites - Gigrin Farm Wales\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2891\/10359254725_2c1e13b331_z.jpg\" alt=\"Red Kites - Gigrin Farm Wales\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kite<\/strong>, as in the bird of prey of the subfamily <em>Milvinae<\/em>, is <strong>milano<\/strong> in Spanish, which also means the down of a thistle and flying gurnard (<em>Dactylopteridae<\/em>) &#8211; a type of fish. This comes from the Vulgar Latin <em>*mil\u0101nus<\/em>, from the Latin <em>milvus<\/em> (kite, gurnard) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/milano\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Spanish word I learnt today is cometa [ko\u02c8meta], which means both kite and comet. It comes from the Latin word com\u0113ta, an alternative version of com\u0113t\u0113s (comet, meteor, shooting star; portent of disaster), from the Ancient Greek \u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u03ae\u03c4\u03b7\u03c2 (kom\u1e17t\u0113s, &#8211; longhaired, comet), which refers to the tail of a comet, from \u03ba\u03bf\u03bc\u1fb0\u0301\u03c9 (kom\u00e1\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":[179,104,107,10,15,192,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-nahuatl","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","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=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21138,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions\/21138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}