{"id":22079,"date":"2022-04-01T16:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22079"},"modified":"2022-04-01T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:25:02","slug":"rush-reeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22079","title":{"rendered":"Rush Reeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The French word for daffodil is <strong>jonquille<\/strong> [\u0292\u0254\u0303.kij], which comes from the Spanish word <strong>junquillo<\/strong> (jonquil, rattan, strip of light wood, gold necklace), from <strong>junco<\/strong> [\u02c8xunko] (rush, reed, junk), from the Latin <em>iuncus<\/em> (rush, reed) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jonquille#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/135476373@N04\/26818372111\/in\/photolist-GRRaG4-2jrPoMJ-GiY8pv-FPHivk-2fiQhmz-2kEFEjV-e1PPJd-2n7DExr-2j5ZmjZ-e1Jbsc-2n5iNRb-2itpCdm-rkdJAw-RJGPZr-2naRg32-2kJX3fG-6feb7b-2n7zSqs-rNZYZg-2na39BC-VhSJV9-2kHfXgg-2na5AdT-FmmQA5-2kEEZqz-2kRByS6-S7M7g3-4zYoZF-2dWxpbP-2kWc57g-rqD42R-2kHNWFA-2kJ5Chg-2kHPpnc-2kJ9Qxp-rczBoU-2kJ9Qyr-2kJ5CgQ-2kHPpmv-2kJ9ncw-2kGHRcN-2kHPpm5-2kJ9ncg-qVdjiG-2iJAu9X-2g69eGX-2iGqqRn-TEnvsk-2n21RqE-2kW17ki\" title=\"Jonquilles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7414\/26818372111_c7bfe0e8b8_z.jpg\" alt=\"Jonquilles\" width=\"640\" height=\"242\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>jonquil<\/strong> [\u02c8d\u0292\u0251\u014bkw\u0259l\/\u02c8d\u0292\u0252\u014bkw\u0259l] refers to a fragrant bulb flower (<em>Narcissus jonquilla<\/em>), a species of daffodil, or a shade of yellow, and comes from the same Latin root, via French and Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jonquil\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>junk<\/strong> also comes from the same Latin root, via the Middle English <em>junke<\/em> (old cable, rope) and the Old French <em>jonc<\/em> (rush) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/junk#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Danish and Norwegian a daffodil is a <strong>p\u00e5skelilje<\/strong>, which means literally &#8220;Easter lily&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/p%C3%A5skelilje#Danish\">source<\/a>]. In German they are called <strong>Osterglocke<\/strong> (&#8220;Easter bell&#8221;) or <strong>Narzisse<\/strong> (narcissus) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/daffodil\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2438\">post about words for daffodil<\/a> in English, Welsh and other Celtic languages a while ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French word for daffodil is jonquille [\u0292\u0254\u0303.kij], which comes from the Spanish word junquillo (jonquil, rattan, strip of light wood, gold necklace), from junco [\u02c8xunko] (rush, reed, junk), from the Latin iuncus (rush, reed) [source]. The English word jonquil [\u02c8d\u0292\u0251\u014bkw\u0259l\/\u02c8d\u0292\u0252\u014bkw\u0259l] refers to a fragrant bulb flower (Narcissus jonquilla), a species of daffodil, or a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,111,116,10,15,26,31,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079","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=22079"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22088,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22079\/revisions\/22088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}