{"id":22104,"date":"2022-04-14T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22104"},"modified":"2022-04-14T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T14:58:39","slug":"together-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22104","title":{"rendered":"Together Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch word I learnt recently is <strong>samenleving<\/strong> [&#8216;sam\u0259nlev\u026a\u014b], which means society or community. It comes from <strong>samenleven<\/strong> (to live together, co-exist), from <strong>samen<\/strong> (together) and <strong>leven<\/strong> (to live), and could be literally translated as &#8220;together-living&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/samenleving#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/robkints\/11884770776\/in\/photolist-j7dyhY-jigzxw-2j8df5S-2jFp1fy-2j6tzsL-o43mHX-2kXgCEG-GfJK1i-naivxw-2iVUFPz-2a6Yfsj-k7ktuC-inyQCD-2iRB4DN-ixP7HY-2iYN8VH-2hDvNGg-kHSvFD-k7ktb1-oEpxkj-2iVxjvA-2iVFZAT-2iVFRNP-2iVA9vs-2fJB1q2-2hDvMFJ-2iVj5Hv-Huabgh-DHYoPG-2iUw4sY-2iVBLKB-2iVemaw-2iVEurw-2iUmSeX-2iU6gXH-2eDTkfq-21NXUkJ-bqDfWN-iKcHgB-GVe2kv-71TSSb-iKfxk6-fcLidd-2esFp12-fTd1x5-qVPiuA-9831uV-fcLi8f-2jp7ffd-oEpxjC\" title=\"Wonder All Around\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2854\/11884770776_c1029c0184_z.jpg\" alt=\"Wonder All Around\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Some related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>anderhalvemetersamenleving<\/strong> = &#8216;one and a half meter society&#8217;, in which (almost) everyone keeps a distance of one and a half meters where possible to prevent the spread of an infectious disease (especially Covid-19)&#8217; [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/anderhalvemetersamenleving\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><strong>wegwerpsamenleving<\/strong> = &#8216;throw away society&#8217;, in which using things once then throwing them away is normal [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/wegwerpsamenleving\">source<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The English word <strong>society<\/strong> comes from the Middle French <em>societ\u00e9<\/em> (society), from the Old French <em>societ\u00e9<\/em> (association, council, group, society, club), from the Latin <em>societ\u0101s<\/em> (fellowship, association, alliance, union, community), from <em>socius<\/em> (associated, allied, partner, companion, ally), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*sok\u02b7-yo-<\/em> (companion), from <em>*sek\u02b7-<\/em> (to follow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/society\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same PIE root include <strong>associate<\/strong>, <strong>consequence<\/strong>, <strong>obsequious<\/strong>, <strong>persue<\/strong> and <strong>sequel<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*sek%CA%B7-_(follow)\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>community<\/strong> comes from the Old French <em>comunit\u00e9<\/em> (community), from the Latin <em>comm\u016bnit\u0101s<\/em> (community; public spirit), from <em>comm\u016bnis<\/em> (common, ordinary, universal, public, democratic) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/community\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Old English a community was a <em>gem\u00e6nscipe<\/em> [\u02c8je\u02ccm\u00e6\u02d0n\u02cc\u0283i.pe], which is cognate with the Dutch word <strong>gemeenschap<\/strong> (community, society, fellowship) and the German word <strong>Gemeinschaft<\/strong> (community, group, company, sense of community). These come from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*gamainiskapi<\/em> (community), from <em>*gamain\u012b<\/em> (common, shared, communal) and <em>*-skapi<\/em> (<em>forms nouns denoting state<\/em>) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic\/gamainiskapi\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dutch word I learnt recently is samenleving [&#8216;sam\u0259nlev\u026a\u014b], which means society or community. It comes from samenleven (to live together, co-exist), from samen (together) and leven (to live), and could be literally translated as &#8220;together-living&#8221; [source]. Some related words include: anderhalvemetersamenleving = &#8216;one and a half meter society&#8217;, in which (almost) everyone keeps a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,10,15,26,33,34,45,202,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104","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=22104"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22115,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22104\/revisions\/22115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}