{"id":22392,"date":"2022-08-17T15:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22392"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:24:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T15:24:11","slug":"before-the-deluge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22392","title":{"rendered":"Before the Deluge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>antediluvian<\/strong> means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient or antiquated<\/li>\n<li>Extremely dated<\/li>\n<li>Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge.<\/li>\n<li>(biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah&#8217;s Flood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from the Latin <em>ante-<\/em> (before) and <em>d\u012bluvium<\/em> (flood), which comes from <em>d\u012blu\u014d<\/em> (I wash away) and <em>-ium<\/em> (a suffix used to form abstract nouns), from <em>dis-<\/em> (apart, reversal) and\u200e <em>lav\u014d<\/em> (I wash) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/antediluvian\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/24093395261\/in\/album-72157670186107524\/\" title=\"Afon Dyfrdwy \/ River Dee\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1686\/24093395261_7f4f2cfa55_z.jpg\" alt=\"Afon Dyfrdwy \/ River Dee\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>deluge<\/strong> (a great flood or rain), comes from the same Latin roots, via the Old French <em>deluge<\/em> (a large flood), as does the word <strong>diluvium<\/strong> (an inundation of flood, deluge; a deposit of sand, gravel, etc made by oceanic flooding) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/diluvium#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same Latin roots include <strong>d\u00e9luge<\/strong> (The Flood, deluge) in French, <strong>diluvio<\/strong> (deluge, downpour) in Spanish, <strong>d\u00edle<\/strong> (flood, deluge, torrent) in Irish, and <strong>dilyw<\/strong> (flood, deluge, destruction, ruin) in Welsh [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/diluvium#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Scottish Gaelic <strong>d\u00ecle<\/strong> [d\u02b2i\u02d0l\u0259] can refer to a deluge or flood. The phrase <strong>an d\u00ecle bh\u00e0ite<\/strong> means heavy downpour or pouring rain, and the equivalent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/idioms\/rain.php\">it\u2019s raining cats and dogs<\/a> is <strong>tha an d\u00ecle &#8216;s an de\u00e0rrsach ann<\/strong> or <strong>tha an d\u00ecle bh\u00e0ite ann an ceartair<\/strong>. As an adjective it means endless, for example <strong>gu d\u00eclinn<\/strong> means \u201cuntil the end of time\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Another word for flood is <strong>inundation<\/strong>, which comes from the Old from <em>inundacion<\/em> (flood), from the Latin <em>inund\u0101ti\u014d<\/em> (inuncation, overflowing, flood, crowd of people), from <em>inund\u014d<\/em> (I overflow, inundate, flood) from <em>in-<\/em> (in, within, inside) and <em>und\u014d<\/em> (I surge, flow), from <em>unda<\/em> (wave, billow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inundation\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Undulate<\/strong> and <strong>undulation<\/strong> come from the same root, as does <strong>und<\/strong>, an obsolete word meaning wave, or in heraldry, a billow- or wave-like marking [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/unda#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>flood<\/strong> comes from the Middle English <em>flod<\/em> (river, lake, ocean, flood, rising tide), from the Old English <em>fl\u014dd<\/em> (flowing of the tide, river, stream, water, flood, deluge), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*fl\u014dduz<\/em> (river, flood), from the PIE <em>*pl\u00e9h\u2083tus<\/em> (overflow, deluge), from <em>*pleh\u2083(w)-<\/em> (to flow, run) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/inundation\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Cognates in other languages include <strong>flod<\/strong> (river, flood, high tide) in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, <strong>Flut<\/strong> (flow, flood, hight tide) in German, and <strong>vloed<\/strong> (flood, current) in Dutch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/fl%C5%8Dduz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word antediluvian means: Ancient or antiquated Extremely dated Pertaining or belonging to the time period prior to a great or destructive flood or deluge. (biblical) Pertaining or belonging to the time prior to Noah&#8217;s Flood. It comes from the Latin ante- (before) and d\u012bluvium (flood), which comes from d\u012blu\u014d (I wash away) and -ium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,111,116,127,10,15,26,31,33,44,45,56,64,67,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392","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=22392"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22403,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22392\/revisions\/22403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}