{"id":22629,"date":"2022-12-24T14:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22629"},"modified":"2022-12-24T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T14:48:18","slug":"eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22629","title":{"rendered":"Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As today is the day before Christmas, I thought I&#8217;d look into the origins of the word <strong>eve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/monkeygrimace\/11521957683\/in\/photolist-iya3AP-qfxzYF-Qz1ZbT-2i76kkL-2mBXEMf-2kiV5HE-4rGTu1-xsyRX-5MVtGi-2o5AS8d-qBe3ff-pCPCda-qBhXU6-5Gq75p-BVtLLg-qwKBS8-4fyrHn-2hZymKk-qutE8q-pEwCJT-qBe2yq-2ktphrR-2mSUWZA-2kghCnd-2o5MqFE-2kdTjc4-dWkXxL-qB8adp-Bu9Cg6-2kd5hKe-2keb5xj-7sdyqK-qd3u3H-2mQFDcS-2o4S9E6-2hT61M1-pzKWgG-2khhRDc-7oPgRz-QCeNUa-2mQgdfk-qfiJrH-7dZ7nX-2kiJ9pu-uSmtv-4rCMU8-2o3seVu-92Ddfk-2hPNqu3-QFxoa6\" title=\"Decorations\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7438\/11521957683_172e802471_z.jpg\" alt=\"Decorations\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Eve<\/strong> means the day or night before, and is usually used for holidays and other significant events, such as <strong>Christmas Eve<\/strong> and <strong>New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/strong>. It can also mean the period of time when something is just about to happen or to be introduced, such as the eve of a scientific breakthrough, and it used to mean evening or night.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>even<\/em> (eve, evening), from the Old English <em>\u01e3fen<\/em> (evening, eve), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*\u0113ban\u00fes<\/em> (evening) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/eve#English\">source<\/a>]. <strong>Evening<\/strong> comes from the same Proto-Germanic root, via the Middle English <em>evenyng<\/em> (evening), and the Old English <em>\u01e3fnung<\/em> (evening) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/eve#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in English including <strong>eventide<\/strong>, a poetic \/ archaic word for evening, and <strong>yestereve<\/strong> (yesterday evening).<\/p>\n<p>Related words in other languages include <strong>avond<\/strong> (evening, night) in Dutch, <strong>Abend<\/strong>  (evening, night) in German, <strong>aften<\/strong> (evening, night) in Danish and <strong>aften<\/strong> (night, evening, eve, dinner, supper) in Norwegian [<a href=\"hthttps:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/%C4%93ban%C3%BEs\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/christmas.htm\">Multilingual Merry Christmas<\/a> to all of you who celebrate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As today is the day before Christmas, I thought I&#8217;d look into the origins of the word eve. Eve means the day or night before, and is usually used for holidays and other significant events, such as Christmas Eve and New Year&#8217;s Eve. It can also mean the period of time when something is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,116,10,26,31,33,44,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-middle-english","category-norwegian","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629","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=22629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22635,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22629\/revisions\/22635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}