{"id":21167,"date":"2021-07-13T17:08:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2021-07-13T17:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T17:08:51","slug":"underthrowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21167","title":{"rendered":"Underthrowing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day the word <strong>onderwerp<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0254nd\u0259rw\u025brp] came up in one of my Dutch lessons. It means subject, topic or issue, and to help me remember it, I decided to look into its etymology.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thinkless\/3113166667\/in\/photolist-5K6MZn-24iGCKd-McgkWq-292yQTt-21DChW9-6aWMpw-6aSCfP-21G9Uy8-suCtQ4-dSmCtP-c67xuY-2jE6qig-CzV552-HegFk7-z8cpSy-HxncXT-Rr2VfF-K8Pf6X-2kE8Uzj-2kU4gH7-6R5ny3-2jZfZkj-2kFX9Xb-2kPJaAD-2krHG2c-cndpbo-GHTdk6-cC1FZb-2kzjQgL-8rhyPX-HAvtwE-GHUTDz-ybc9rC-K1RMsR-41vw2j-8Sbmdz-yq4ccC-6MVDTz-2kDBhCU-9Qy6Pi-Dw6pgB-p3Z5ev-2kN4ZL6-2m8vfuY-JGhHwk-2kNmyeL-x4rzAk-2g6GXyV-2kypczC-jQAZ93\" title=\"SUBJECT\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3225\/3113166667_3f71bb0553_z.jpg\" alt=\"SUBJECT\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It comes from <strong>onder<\/strong> (under, among) and <strong>werpen<\/strong> (to throw, shed, cast), and is a calque of the Latin word <em>subiectum<\/em> (that which is spoken of, the foundation or subject of a proposition) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/onderwerp\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related expressions include <strong>onderwerpen<\/strong> (to subject), <strong>onderwerping<\/strong> (submission, subjugation, subjection),  <strong>onderwerpszin<\/strong> (subject clause), <strong>gespreksonderwerp<\/strong> (topic of conversation, talk, conversation piece), <strong>nieuwsonderwerp<\/strong> (news item)<\/p>\n<p><em>Subiectum<\/em> comes from <em>subici\u014d<\/em> (throw under or near; supply; forge; subject; propose), from <em>sub-<\/em> (under) and\u200e <em>iaci\u014d<\/em> (throw, hurl). The English word <strong>subject<\/strong> comes from the same root, as do related words in other languages, such as  <strong>sujet<\/strong> (subject, cause, reason) in French, and <strong>soggetto<\/strong> (subject, dependent) in Italian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/subiectum#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So an <strong>onderwerp<\/strong> and a <strong>subject<\/strong> is something that is thrown under.<\/p>\n<p>A related Dutch word is <strong>voorwerp<\/strong> [\u02c8vo\u02d0r\u02cc\u028b\u025brp], which means object or item, and comes from <strong>voor<\/strong> (for, before, in front of) and <strong>werpen<\/strong> (to throw, shed, cast), and is a calque of the Latin word <em>obiectum<\/em> (a charge, accusation), which is the root of <strong>object<\/strong> comes from the same root, as do related words in other languages, from <em>obici\u014d<\/em> (throw to; offer, present) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/voorwerp#Dutch\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day the word onderwerp [\u02c8\u0254nd\u0259rw\u025brp] came up in one of my Dutch lessons. It means subject, topic or issue, and to help me remember it, I decided to look into its etymology. It comes from onder (under, among) and werpen (to throw, shed, cast), and is a calque of the Latin word subiectum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,111,128,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167","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=21167"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21179,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21167\/revisions\/21179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}