{"id":23071,"date":"2023-09-14T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23071"},"modified":"2023-09-14T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:33:14","slug":"tents-and-tenants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23071","title":{"rendered":"Tents and Tenants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are the words <strong>tent<\/strong> and <strong>tenant<\/strong> related? Let\u2019s find out.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/worldscouting\/5992815125\/in\/photolist-6R5LQH-7UYJCZ-dYQkc5-8yrK6y-9KZjdr-9CaJvH-8mnhLS-6R5B69-MwtEwQ-5xGqHv-9L32D7-5gj2DR-asjC3d-6YLT7Q-oiMmM3-d5VuTL-KUKpt-4S5yjs-7yy2Vc-8yDJtE-2gUBad-3HBGCM-3iNpva-axXvPS-5m6BRL-utgXvc-AKAHCj-f6H6X8-2Zmsma-QtxfB-846ECc-ddrQkD-6hZHnF-dY4Ks-8gnWXD-2YmeR-2TRxUX-7Y3fzy-4WQMM-7P3XGQ-a8yK9H-9Zssuc-j1Xvbh-cQMf2b-7gJFmG-9Z6bt6-xUwqRL-a6NSUj-8Am66v-9KcqUe\" title=\"MM07302011_21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/6021\/5992815125_ea4b8b3a50_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" alt=\"MM07302011_21\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>tent<\/strong> is  a portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/tent\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>tente<\/em> (tent, abode, dwelling place, pavilion) [<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/MED44838\/track?counter=2&#038;search_id=34113224\">source<\/a>, from the Old French <em>tente<\/em> (tent, temporary hut or other similar building), from Vulgar Latin <em>*tenta<\/em> (tent), from <em>tentus<\/em> (stretched, extended, distended), from <em>tend\u014d<\/em> (to stretch, distend, extend), from Proto-Italic <em>*tend\u014d<\/em> (I stretch), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*ten-<\/em> (to stretch, extend) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tent#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>tenant<\/strong> is one that pays rent to use or occupy land, a building, or other property owned by another; a dweller in a place; an occupant [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/tenant\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>tenaunt<\/em> (tenant &#8211; one who holds real property from another by feudal obligation or payment of rent) [<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/MED44771\/track?counter=1&#038;search_id=34113378\">source<\/a>], from Anglo-Norman <em>tenaunt<\/em> (tenant), from Old French <em>tenant<\/em> (holder, possessor [of land or property], tenant, owner), from <em>tenir<\/em> (to hold), from Latin <em>tene\u014d<\/em> (I hold, have, grasp), from Proto-Italic <em>*ten\u0113\u014d<\/em> (I hold), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*ten-<\/em> (to stretch, extend) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tent#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So they do come from the same PIE root, via different routes. Other words from the same PIE root include <strong>tenor<\/strong>, <strong>tone<\/strong>, <strong>tonic<\/strong>, <strong>tune<\/strong>, <strong>sustain<\/strong> and <strong>content<\/strong>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*ten-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, in Old English the word for tent was <em>teld<\/em>,  from the Proto-Germanic <em>*teld\u0105<\/em> (tent, drape), which became <em>teld<\/em> (tent, castle, fort, hut) in Middle English, and <strong>teld<\/strong> (tent, to lodge in a tent, to pitch a tent), and <strong>tilt<\/strong> (a canvas covering for carts, boats, etc, tent) in Modern English, although these words are no longer used [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/teld#Old_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photoverulam\/28416218413\/in\/photolist-Ki3xJe-vdyUu-vHjuSY-nCFRaV-6sKPtw-6sFFE4-6sFHMR-6sFFqB-6sKJSC-6sKKfL-6sKSgm-6sKLEG-6sFBNB-6sKRib-vR3fv-9Ca2tw-6sFGTc-6sKQJ5-4y9XK-6sFASc-d8joWN-5k9ScN-KJUmB-6sFyFP-eei76Q-6UybtV-5k9SD1-8jBqeC-7GySyo-cV6qDw-cV6hgq-5k5kX2-6iVZbc-9vprw2-5k9C3j-2mdW2mT-oCvFth-LbFRb1-8xKbYG-KhLtWh-NJ4JL6-aApQyJ-Ew2BxH-neGciT-8Nb7sN-3egkLx-3egkM4-KJUk8-KhLHSU-5k9S2L\" title=\"Jousting\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8362\/28416218413_9c5233b314_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Jousting\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tilt<\/strong>, which means to slope or incline (smth), to slant, to be at an angle, to charge (at sb) with a lance, to joust, etc, comes from different roots. Apparently it came to be associated with jousting as the cloth barrier that separated combantants in a joust is called a <strong>tilt<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tilt#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are the words tent and tenant related? Let\u2019s find out. A tent is a portable shelter made of fabric or other material stretched over a supporting framework of poles and usually stabilized or secured to the ground with cords and stakes [source]. It comes from the Middle English tente (tent, abode, dwelling place, pavilion) [source, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,104,107,10,15,26,33,34,45,46,216,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-norman","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-old-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-vulgar-latin-sermo-vulgaris","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071","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=23071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23074,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23071\/revisions\/23074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}