{"id":2120,"date":"2010-01-08T20:40:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2120"},"modified":"2010-01-08T20:40:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:40:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-eolienne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2120","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u00e9olienne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/windturbine.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" style=\"margin:0 0 0 10px;\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Wind turbine \/ \u00e9olienne\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things we discussed at the French conversation group last night was wind turbines, or <em>les \u00e9oliennes<\/em> in French. I hadn&#8217;t heard the word before and it took me a while to work out its meaning, but I knew it had something to do with the wind as Aeolus (<em>\u0391\u1f34\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2<\/em>) was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. Eventually I realised what it was from the context.<\/p>\n<p>The word aeolian also appears in aeolian harp (<em>harpe \u00e9olienne<\/em>), a harp played by the wind; aeolian processes (<em>\u00e9rosion \u00e9olienne<\/em>), wind generated geologic processes; the Aeolian Islands (<em>Les \u00celes \u00c9oliennes<\/em>), the Aeolian mode of music, a musical mode; and Eolianite (<em>L&#8217;\u00e9olianite<\/em>), a sandstone formed from wind transported sediment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things we discussed at the French conversation group last night was wind turbines, or les \u00e9oliennes in French. I hadn&#8217;t heard the word before and it took me a while to work out its meaning, but I knew it had something to do with the wind as Aeolus (\u0391\u1f34\u03bf\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2) was the ruler [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,118,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120","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=2120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}