{"id":22641,"date":"2022-12-30T12:48:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22641"},"modified":"2022-12-30T12:57:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T12:57:15","slug":"seeding-discord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22641","title":{"rendered":"Seeding Discord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt an interesting phrase in French &#8211; <strong>semer la zizanie<\/strong>, which means to stir up ill-feeling, to mess around\/about, to drive a wedge (between) or to wreak\/raise havoc [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/zizanie\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jmvdmaren\/20388056328\/in\/photolist-2P1tVL-x4C7Qy-Ftbob\" title=\"J. Zizanie des marais P8100001 2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5712\/20388056328_ab4e0710b2_z.jpg\" alt=\"J. Zizanie des marais P8100001 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>semer<\/strong> means to sow, spread, scatter, lose or shake off. You can also <strong>semer le doute<\/strong> (cast doubts), <strong>semer la panique<\/strong> (spread panic) or <strong>semer la discorde<\/strong> (sow\/seed discord, foster division) [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/semer\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Latin <em>s\u0113min\u0101re<\/em> (to sow), from <em>s\u0113min\u014d<\/em> (I plant, sow), from <em>s\u0113men<\/em> (seed, graft, offspring, cause), from the Proto-Italic <em>*s\u0113men<\/em> (seed), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*s\u00e9h\u2081mn\u0325<\/em> (seed), from <em>seh\u2081-<\/em> (to sow, plant). English words from the same roots include <strong>season<\/strong>, <strong>seed<\/strong>, <strong>seminar<\/strong> and <strong>sow<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/semer#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Zizanie<\/strong> means discord or ill-feeling, and comes from the Latin  <em>z\u012bzania<\/em> (tares, cockle), from <em>ziz\u0101\u0306nium<\/em> (tares, cockle, darnel, jealousy, discord), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b6\u1fd0\u03b6\u1fb0\u0301\u03bd\u1fd0\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (ziz\u00e1nion &#8211; darnel, ryegrass), from the Aramaic \u05d6\u05d6\u05e0\u05d9\u05d0\u200e, from the Sumerian \ud808\udf63\ud808\udf5d\ud808\udc2d (ziz\u0101n &#8211; wheat) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/zizanie#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>\u0632\u0650\u0648\u064e\u0627\u0646\u200e<\/strong> (ziw\u0101n &#8211; darnel, ryegrass) in Arabic, <strong>zizzania<\/strong> (darnel, tare, discord) in Italian, and <strong>ciza\u00f1a<\/strong> (darnel, tare, dissension, enmity) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%CE%B6%CE%B9%CE%B6%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BF%CE%BD#Ancient_Greek\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tare<\/strong> is a vetch or any of the tufted grasses of genus <em>Lolium<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tare#English\">source<\/a>]. <strong>Darnel<\/strong> is a species of ryegrass of the genus <em>Lolium temulentum<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/darnel\">source<\/a>], and <strong>cockle<\/strong> is another name for the same plant [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cockle#Etymology_2\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the word <strong>wreak<\/strong>, which only appears in the phrase <strong>to wreak havoc<\/strong> (to cause damage, disruption or destruction), and a few other phrases, means to cause harm, afflict, inflict, harm, injure; to chasten, chastise, punish, smite, and used to mean to inflict or take vengeance on, or to take vengeance for [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/wreak\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I learnt an interesting phrase in French &#8211; semer la zizanie, which means to stir up ill-feeling, to mess around\/about, to drive a wedge (between) or to wreak\/raise havoc [source]. The word semer means to sow, spread, scatter, lose or shake off. You can also semer le doute (cast doubts), semer la panique (spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,104,107,111,10,15,45,46,201,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-sumerian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641","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=22641"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22648,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22641\/revisions\/22648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}