{"id":22515,"date":"2022-11-03T15:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T15:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22515"},"modified":"2022-11-04T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T14:14:19","slug":"tidy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22515","title":{"rendered":"Tidy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch word <strong>ruimen<\/strong> [\u02c8r\u0153y\u032fm\u0259(n)] means to clean up, to clear or to remove. It comes from the Middle Dutch <em>rumen<\/em>, from the Old Dutch <em>*r\u016bmen<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic <em>*r\u016bmijan\u0105<\/em> (to make room, to clear), from <em>*r\u016bmaz<\/em> (roomy, spacious, open) and <em>*-jan\u0105<\/em> (a suffix that makes adjectives) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ruimen\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roel1943\/10901116125\/in\/photolist-iNJf8C-iQhPe8-2o22Lq-7ZtCgp-2nWxac-2k6F3Jb-L9HVB5-hBi532-4Zka2o-aDFG5B-aDFG7H-M6HiHa-j87qN-6o8N1X-68RA7d-mKRWEt-efVjht-aDFG8a-3Quv12-a3t2Eh-9XWaiM-nvtR2Z-bdFRgB-7sFqne-p2HEV8-4SwuHB-p2FLU3-p2FLY1-gwW5Gb-3GUzr-2ra2uz-5LTD3V-4SmeuW-5LTyAv-5LTEfp-5LXKWS-5LTDyV-5LTBsT-5LXQ9f-5LTzbc-5LXKB3-8LStGd-5LTA7X-5LXQQU-5LXQrG-5LTwHz-3YiXFG-xL7Lgw-6P7WRY-arMg6q\" title=\"De mannen die onze rommel opruimen\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3669\/10901116125_c9b1844e4d_z.jpg\" alt=\"De mannen die onze rommel opruimen\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>ream<\/strong> (to enlarge a hole), and <strong>rim<\/strong> in English; <strong>arrimer<\/strong> (to stow, secure) in French; <strong>r\u00e4umen<\/strong> (to vacate, move out of, clear, shift) in German; and <strong>rymma<\/strong> (to hold, escape, flee, evacuate) in Swedish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/r%C5%ABmijan%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>ruimen<\/strong> is combined with suffixes, the meaning changes somewhat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>afruimen<\/strong> = to clean up, to pick up, to clear (a table), clearing<\/li>\n<li><strong>inruimen<\/strong> = to put away, to fit in, to accept, to load (a dishwasher)<\/li>\n<li><strong>leegruimen<\/strong> = to clean out, clearing out<\/li>\n<li><strong>ontruimen<\/strong> = to clear, to evacuate, to vacate<\/li>\n<li><strong>opruimen<\/strong> = to clean up, to clear, to tidy up<\/li>\n<li><strong>puinruimen<\/strong> = to clear the debris, rubble<\/li>\n<li><strong>uitruimen<\/strong> = to clean out, to clear out, to unload, unloading<\/li>\n<li><strong>verruimen<\/strong> = to boarden, to expland, to extend<\/li>\n<li><strong>wegruimen<\/strong> = to get rid of, clearing away, disposal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words include <strong>ruim<\/strong> [r\u0153y\u032fm], which means spacious, roomy, large, ample, generous; more than, over, and also the cargo hold (of a ship) or a wide, open space; and <strong>ruimte<\/strong>, which means a space, room or area, and also (outer) space. A spaceship is a <strong>ruimteschip<\/strong> or <strong>ruimtevaartuig<\/strong> (\u201cspace faring thing\u201d), and an astronaut is a <strong>ruimtevaarder<\/strong> (\u201cspace farer\u201d), who might go on a <strong>ruimtewandeling<\/strong> (spacewalk)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/nl.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ruimen\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m good a tidying up (opruimen) and putting things away (inruimen), but not so good at getting rid of things (wegruimen). I tend to accumulate a lot of things, thinking they might come in handy one day. Occasionally I clear out the cupboards, drawers, sleeves and other places where such things tend to end up.<\/p>\n<p>How tidy are you?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, <strong>tidy<\/strong> is cognate with the Dutch word <strong>tijdig<\/strong> (timely, in\/on time), and used to mean in good time or timely in English. The Dutch for tidy is <strong>netjes<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tidy\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Wenglish (Welsh English), <strong>tidy!<\/strong> as an exclamation means fine or splendid, <strong>a tidy spell<\/strong> is quite a long time, <strong>a tidy few<\/strong> is quite a number, <strong>a tidy feller<\/strong> is a decent chap, probably \u2018good with his hands\u2019,  <strong>a tidy swill<\/strong> is a wash involving at least the face and hands, and <strong>talk tidy!<\/strong> means speak properly! [<a href=\"https:\/\/seniorchatters.co.uk\/tidy-welsh\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><em>Some details provided by Anna Rutten<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dutch word ruimen [\u02c8r\u0153y\u032fm\u0259(n)] means to clean up, to clear or to remove. It comes from the Middle Dutch rumen, from the Old Dutch *r\u016bmen, from the Proto-Germanic *r\u016bmijan\u0105 (to make room, to clear), from *r\u016bmaz (roomy, spacious, open) and *-jan\u0105 (a suffix that makes adjectives) [source]. Words from the same roots include ream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,111,116,10,182,203,44,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-old-dutch","category-proto-germanic","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22515","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=22515"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22521,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22515\/revisions\/22521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}