{"id":21839,"date":"2022-01-22T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21839"},"modified":"2022-01-22T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T13:11:18","slug":"oak-knowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21839","title":{"rendered":"Oak Knowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To me the word <strong>druid<\/strong> makes me think of <strong>Getafix<\/strong>, the druid in the Asterix comics &#8211; an old man with a long white beard who brews magic potions in a big cauldron. He has other names, such as <strong>Panoramix<\/strong> in many other European languages, and <strong>Kensawthetrix<\/strong> (&#8220;knows all the tricks&#8221;) in Scots [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Asterix_characters#Getafix\">More details<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8087430@N04\/50319727001\/in\/photolist-bmdos5-2k11Rfk-2bAtd1g-2mK8zum-4tdRQY-uADMfQ-27eZoih-y3VpyV-28jSErc-28fC1nu-28jSEM2-4Fe5Q1-2esQ62-2jEzKJ2\" title=\"IMGR6414-ed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50319727001_4ba407ea93_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMGR6414-ed\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/druid\">TheFreeDictionary<\/a>, a druid is:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a member of an ancient order of priests in Gaul, Britain, and Ireland in the pre-Christian era<\/li>\n<li>a member of any of several modern movements attempting to revive druidism<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It comes from the French <strong>druide<\/strong> (druid), from the Old French <strong>druide<\/strong> (druid), from the Latin <em>Druidae<\/em> (the Druids), from the Gaulish <em>*druwits<\/em> (druid), from the Proto-Celtic <em>*druwits<\/em> (druid), from <em>*daru<\/em> (oak) amd <em>*wid\/*windeti<\/em> (to know, to see), so a druid is an &#8220;oak knower\/seer&#8221;, from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u00f3ru<\/em> (tree) and <em>*weyd-<\/em> (to see) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/druid#English\">Source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Proto-Brythonic a druid or seer was a <em>*dr\u00fcw<\/em>, which became <strong>dryw<\/strong> [dr\u0268u\u032f\/dr\u026au\u032f] (druid, seer) and <strong>derwydd<\/strong> (prophet, wise man, druid) in Welsh, <strong>drewydh<\/strong> (druid) in Cornish and <strong>drouiz<\/strong> (druid) in Breton [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/druwits\">source<\/a>]. It was also borrowed into Old English as <em>dr\u0233<\/em> (sorcerer, magician), which became <em>dr\u012b(mann)\/dri\u0292(mann)<\/em> (sorcerer, magician) in Middle English [<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/MED12613\">source<\/a>]. A few modern druids use the word <strong>drymann<\/strong>, or something similiar, to refer to themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a traditional Welsh folk tune called <strong>Y Derwydd<\/strong> (The Druid):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tbAQ9pxjbJY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is sheet music for several versions of this tune on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesession.org\/tunes\/2985\">The Session<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To me the word druid makes me think of Getafix, the druid in the Asterix comics &#8211; an old man with a long white beard who brews magic potions in a big cauldron. He has other names, such as Panoramix in many other European languages, and Kensawthetrix (&#8220;knows all the tricks&#8221;) in Scots [More details]. 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