{"id":22095,"date":"2022-04-07T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22095"},"modified":"2022-04-07T14:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T14:36:52","slug":"dawning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22095","title":{"rendered":"Dawning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch I learnt recently is <strong>uitdaging<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0153y\u032ft\u02ccda\u02d0.\u0263\u026a\u014b], which means a challenge. It comes from <strong>uitdagen<\/strong> (to challenge), from <strong>uit<\/strong> (out, off, over), and <strong>dagen<\/strong> (to dawn, light, rise, start, call).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dagen<\/strong> comes from the Middle Dutch <em>d\u0101gen<\/em> (to dawn, rest (a horse), delay, summon), from the Old Dutch <em>*dagon<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*dag\u0101n\u0105<\/em> [\u02c8d\u0251.\u0263\u0251\u02d0.n\u0251\u0303] (to dawn, to become day) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/uitdaging\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgiesharp\/30546359495\/in\/photolist-Nxh5sB-6smsp-9RMQvk-6NrZUK-2cQVmTj-9e2nWS-BsagVP-6YS61S-8oBn9S-9FJA3-cV5FzG-mT2yE-dnKEP-2n5ewgo-BC3y4S-2iV9CzH-DKXAuc-q7NPQx-8oBnd3-2jz2AJj-bSjo6z-2jcUpAn-2iYPvmD-MKW3XD-oQDNL7-p88aBC-RwRXQN-8hDPK8-5GLEXk-8mXfd-a1JGK7-6D2xYv-2ks88Cw-oj6e-KrQS3u-6zoFQM-7trPbH-2mWZvS4-8M6soh-eg53HW-2kxdhxa-5dwPVF-a4mwW4-L34rdg-2dJ2Dm-2dJ3RJ-86YZk-nM2Az-p86cab-2mmDssP\" title=\"dawn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5444\/30546359495_ec7358b569_z.jpg\" alt=\"dawn\" width=\"640\" height=\"314\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Scots word <strong>daw<\/strong> [d\u0251:] (to dawn) comes from the same Proto-Germanic root, via the Middle English <em>dawen<\/em> and the Old English <em>dagian<\/em> (to dawn), as does the obselete English word <strong>daw<\/strong> [d\u0254\u02d0], which means to dawn, wake up, daunt or terrify [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/dag%C4%81n%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>dawning<\/strong>, a poetic word for dawn or the first beginnings of something, comes from the same Proto-Germanic root, and from it we get the word <strong>dawn<\/strong> (to begin to brighten with daylight, to start to appear) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dawning#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/128941223@N02\/49820623376\/in\/photolist-2iUtHB7-Tmogjy-8JMVhC-2iQ3Wio-MUnQfb-cmd9Ho-MUnPHE-2gbkCRB-7zK9Fo-7DiKHu-oN7i6h-2iYzT3N-25nJ2n3-o3hkop-yzCLz-q2TF95-4iYwxE-2h1zHg5-o3aqyf-2m75WwW-oifRT6-2m7ahC6-2gcwMmP-9XKcdH-7W8FR5-7CmvuC-7zFoHc-Y3tVky-28Wo9Ad-rTwvg7-4CLGE7-6iUQjY-wH9FY4-nQ5RtN-QMBgN2-GcGZ6A-2n9eBar-2n2B3Yz-2mGgeDf-2n9SvKm-2k7Qksb-AWpSs2-2mZgrzh-2k3m2D9-2mPrStL-2kApLw6-2jyuCKe-scNdWN-2kCv9Ch-2krLYti\" title=\"Jackdaw\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49820623376_ddc49e7897_z.jpg\" alt=\"Jackdaw\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The unrelated word <strong>daw<\/strong> is an old name for the <strong>jackdaw<\/strong> (<em>Coloeus monedula<\/em>), and also means idiot, simpleton or fool. It comes from the Middle English <em>dawe<\/em>, from the Old English <em>d\u0101we<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*d\u0113h\u01ed<\/em> (jackdaw), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u02b0\u0101k\u02b7-<\/em> (jackdaw, starling, thrush) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/daw#Etymology_1\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daw<\/strong> is also found in Scots, and means a sluggard; a lazy, idle person; a slattern, a drab or an untidy woman, and comes from the jackdaw sense of <strong>daw<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dsl.ac.uk\/entry\/snd\/daw_n2\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch I learnt recently is uitdaging [\u02c8\u0153y\u032ft\u02ccda\u02d0.\u0263\u026a\u014b], which means a challenge. It comes from uitdagen (to challenge), from uit (out, off, over), and dagen (to dawn, light, rise, start, call). Dagen comes from the Middle Dutch d\u0101gen (to dawn, rest (a horse), delay, summon), from the Old Dutch *dagon, from the Proto-Germanic *dag\u0101n\u0105 [\u02c8d\u0251.\u0263\u0251\u02d0.n\u0251\u0303] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,10,182,26,203,33,44,45,55,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-middle-english","category-old-dutch","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scots","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095","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=22095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22096,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095\/revisions\/22096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}