{"id":23088,"date":"2023-09-28T14:26:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23088"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:26:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:26:57","slug":"early-peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23088","title":{"rendered":"Early Peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>apricot<\/strong> or <em>Prunus armeniaca<\/em>, is named after Armenia, and has been cultivated in that area for a very long time. However, it was probably first domesticated in central Asia.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vizpix\/3728500892\/in\/photolist-53ycTi-PuN3PS-7VCNM4-2ozsTvA-24WHRUt-2kCW4VX-6Ftxq9-5sotoY-G7riTa-a19UTy-GcyDnd-24kqgyr-99MuNm-PqVUGV-Ravh2A-5kSoRm-dvices-BrUhgP-5vVUhW-ofwzvJ-8ghFBj-4npgwq-2ij1ycF-CHzmq2-88WrBK-2nvHFut-Rizm6S-2CES7t-8gepKM-2eRCWTA-24jLSmR-2hN9Y22-24jLSyK-2dxqLTi-9eXcF-24jLRPD-9eXdx-2dxqLqe-24jLRLn-2eRCX8y-24kxTLK-2eWeVDB-2dxqMbH-2dxqLW4-24jLRVk-2eRCX1j-2eRCWVE-RbCXHM-24jLSrR-24jLS5D\" title=\"apricots glow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2646\/3728500892_278678184f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"apricots glow\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Prunus armeniaca<\/em> or <strong>common apricot<\/strong> is the most commonly cultivated apricot species. Other species are available that are native to China, Siberia and Europe [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apricot\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Like the fruit, the word <strong>apricot<\/strong> has undergone quite a journey to arrive in English. It started in Latin as <em>persica praecocia<\/em> (\u201cearly ripening peach\u201d), then moved into Greek as <em>\u03c0\u03c1\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba\u03cc\u03ba\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (praik\u00f3kion &#8211; apricot). That became <em>\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03b9\u03ba\u03bf\u03ba\u03ba\u03af\u1fb1<\/em> (berikokk\u00ed\u0101 &#8211; apricot tree) in Byzantine Greek, which was borrowed into Arabic as <em>\u0627\u064e\u0644\u0652\u0628\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0642\u200e<\/em> (al-barq\u016bq, &#8211; plum), then into Andalusian Arabic as <em>\u0627\u0644\u0652\u0628\u064e\u0631\u0652\u0642\u064f\u0648\u0642\u200e<\/em> (al-barq\u016bq &#8211; the plums). It jumped into Spanish as <strong>albaricoque<\/strong> (apricot), and into Catalan as <strong>a(l)bercoc<\/strong> (apricot). It was then borrowed into Middle French and became <em>aubercot<\/em> and later <em>abricot<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally it arrived in English in the 1550s  as <em>abrecock<\/em>, which eventually became <strong>apricot<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/apricot#etymonline_v_15524\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A word  from the same roots is <strong>precocious<\/strong>, which originally referred to flowers or fruit that developed or ripened before the usual time, and later came to refer to people and other things [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/precocious#etymonline_v_19377\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same roots include <strong>biscuit<\/strong>, <strong>charcuterie<\/strong>, <strong>concoct<\/strong>, <strong>cook<\/strong>, <strong>cusine<\/strong>, <strong>kitchen<\/strong> and <strong>kiln<\/strong> in English,  <strong>kepti<\/strong> (to bake, roast) in Lithuanian, and <strong>poeth<\/strong> (hot, roast, cooked) in Welsh.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate root of these words (or at least parts of them) is the Proto-Indo-European word <em>*pekw-<\/em> (to cook, ripen) [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/word\/*pekw-#etymonline_v_53497\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apricot or Prunus armeniaca, is named after Armenia, and has been cultivated in that area for a very long time. However, it was probably first domesticated in central Asia. The Prunus armeniaca or common apricot is the most commonly cultivated apricot species. Other species are available that are native to China, Siberia and Europe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,94,104,107,10,15,170,27,45,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arabic","category-catalan","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-lithuanian-lietuviu-kalba","category-middle-french","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088","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=23088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23090,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23088\/revisions\/23090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}