{"id":21345,"date":"2021-08-31T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21345"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:41:57","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T14:41:57","slug":"climbing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21345","title":{"rendered":"Climbing Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across an interesting Dutch word &#8211; <strong>klimop<\/strong> [&#8216;kl\u026a.m\u0254p], which means <strong>ivy<\/strong> (<em>Hedera helix<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bdesham\/4498530253\/in\/photolist-7Rw9jr-4t73uM-ePfV8-zYvA1-8Gzr8R-7nhrcV-7f8KKP-GCnyw-54NoYf-fsjg2-DRGJF-7Nma3-g8DXL-bN2XC-nuvkb-5fAvD2-8Gzooz-pt4kcg-etkQGp-eUmd5a-21tUk-8GzoLK-fgGv5-8Gzp9i-cyRj8-8GCAGN-8XDBQd-21tU3-7ZMdGJ-28Jzpc-5WgNNB-L6vPs-2kkgNhW-2gG7wa-2kMFSMz-9DhbX2-dMPtct-qxBQKu-H34a74-35myQZ-5ed7ND-6knnPQ-8GCB9w-4hTq78-2aUvSJU-bN322-2jBdXSC-58EZ3j-7qDp5c-inYL7\" title=\"Ivy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4046\/4498530253_30a643b214_z.jpg\" alt=\"Ivy\" 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>opklimmen<\/strong> (to climb up, become greater, become larger), and literally means &#8220;climb-up&#8221;, which seems like a good name for a plant the climbs up walls and other things [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/klimop\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Klimop<\/strong> also features in Afrikaans, and similar words are used in Low German (<strong>Klimmop<\/strong>) and Papiamentu (<strong>klem\u00f2k<\/strong>) [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/klimop\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Klimmen<\/strong> (to climb, go up) comes from the Middle Dutch <em>climmen<\/em> (to climb,  rise, to go up, increase), from the Old Dutch <em>*climban<\/em> (to climb), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*klimban\u0105<\/em> (to climb) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/klimmen\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>climb<\/strong> comes from the same root, via the Middle English <em>climben<\/em> [\u02c8kli\u02d0mb\u0259n\/\u02c8klimb\u0259n] (to climb, scale, ascend, soar), and the Old English <em>climban<\/em> [\u02c8klim.b\u0251n] (to climb). In Late Middle English the b was no longer pronounced, so <em>climben<\/em> became [\u02c8kli\u02d0m\u0259n\/\u02c8klim\u0259n]. Then the i became a diphthong and the <em>-en<\/em> ending fell off, resulting in the pronunciation [kla\u026am] [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/klimmen\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>ivy<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>ivi<\/em> (ivy), from the Old English <em>\u012bfi\u0121<\/em> [\u02c8i\u02d0.vij] (ivy), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*ibahs<\/em> (ivy), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*(h\u2081)eb\u02b0-<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ivy\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>From the same root we get words for ivy in Danish (<strong>efeu<\/strong>), German (<strong>Efeu<\/strong>) and Norwegian (<strong>ef\u00f8y<\/strong>) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/ibahs\">source<\/a>], and words for yew (trees) in Celtic languages, including <strong>i\u00far<\/strong> in Irish and <strong>iubhar<\/strong> in Scottish Gaelic [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/08\/31\/yew-trees\/\">more details<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I came across an interesting Dutch word &#8211; klimop [&#8216;kl\u026a.m\u0254p], which means ivy (Hedera helix). It comes from opklimmen (to climb up, become greater, become larger), and literally means &#8220;climb-up&#8221;, which seems like a good name for a plant the climbs up walls and other things [source]. Klimop also features in Afrikaans, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,100,102,104,107,116,127,10,182,26,31,203,33,44,45,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrikaans","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-dutch","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345","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=21345"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21356,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21345\/revisions\/21356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}