{"id":23164,"date":"2023-11-11T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23164"},"modified":"2023-11-11T20:20:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T20:20:34","slug":"tarragon-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23164","title":{"rendered":"Tarragon Dragons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What links the word <strong>tarragon<\/strong> to words like <strong>dragon<\/strong> and <strong>drake<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deamentiaemundi\/14891600520\/in\/photolist-5rahVD-9o5dsi-4HhG9v-4PuY3D-5AT6F-3b1SxE-8xWzjZ-4uPSop-9Nbujw-TFMpH9-oFVm27-aEi4Sd-e6JHjH-e6QmGb-e6JH6p-e6JHhz-2CH5GF-6m8jiH-e6Qmts-e6JH1a-LPS3d9-iZAC1-fmYMgt-cPcBwu-jcomn-dqYogX-DsH1NK-76q4pH-Dqp1uh-e1khtv-2opHHL2-2oYJo1g-2kW9wTb-4FKzdK-feF2Fx-oofkHc-2nYXf6Q-fomGw-e7D7s3-RqtcAi-q64TR-4McGP-2osDnR1-78nrLN-e7xv72-2nNNCz2-2oCsW8Z-5dSA5W-2he3ANF-4McPv\" title=\"tarragon-seed\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3856\/14891600520_ab7586823b_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"tarragon-seed\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tarragon<\/strong> is a perennial herb of the wormwood species <em>Artemisia dracunculus<\/em> native to Europe and Asia. It\u2019s also known as <strong>estragon<\/strong>, <strong>dragon\u2019s wort<\/strong> or <strong>silky wormwood<\/strong>. Other names are available.<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>tarragon<\/strong> comes from Middle French <em>targon<\/em> (tarragon), from Medieval Latin <em>tragonia<\/em> (tarragon), from Arabic <em>\u0637\u064e\u0631\u0652\u062e\u064f\u0648\u0646\u200e<\/em> (\u1e6dar\u1e35\u016bn &#8211; tarragon), from Ancient Greek <em>\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1\u03ba\u03cc\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd<\/em> (drak\u00f3ntion &#8211; dragonwort, <em>Dracunculus vulgaris<\/em>), from <em>\u03b4\u03c1\u03ac\u03ba\u03c9\u03bd<\/em> (dr\u00e1k\u014dn &#8211; dragon, serpent) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tarragon\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/teflon\/5001747013\/in\/photolist-8BZg8t-aaT7kK-7GgiF4-LHBQ2-4jsobJ-KHCE5-LHrvJ-LHrQG-4DrSqy-GE6tDj-bEP8tm-6bH4tv-cpQBC-7wiw2d-4ugabg-9vvjq-iLb1v-s7b8V-bdsmmT-VP4rEa-7fsjEc-kU4TE-5LQMq-9qbhAn-8nhwv3-8rCRvG-99wZ5V-67ted7-2gaJYEN-6mH15j-M74Y-5WQwDK-6gBaeM-6YSv4-A4bSo-2dGHr2n-X2NuTM-2H2nEj-pvDR5o-2p8WCx-o6GMcm-4Mzq4B-9dxgZs-ddS3kk-6fjwpe-fZMbR1-6fuc9S-kU4TF-dEGNAY-72cqrC\" title=\"Dragon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4088\/5001747013_0096baa5d3_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Dragon\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>dragon<\/strong> comes ultimately from the same Ancient Greek roots, via  Middle English <em>dragoun<\/em> (dragon, drake, wyrm), Old French <em>dragon<\/em> (dragon), and Latin <em>drac\u014d\/drac\u014dnem<\/em> (dragon) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dragon#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>drake<\/strong> (a mayfly used as fishing bait, dragon [poetic], fiery meteor), also comes from the same Ancient Greek roots, via  Middle English <em>drake<\/em> (dragon, Satan), Old English <em>draca<\/em> (dragon, sea monster, huge serpent), Proto-West-Germanic <em>*drak\u014d<\/em> (dragon), and Latin <em>drac\u014d<\/em> (dragon) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/drake#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/archeon\/2448850113\/in\/photolist-61yF9H-q6wqb5-9ukrxp-4JoZPF-2onb4XV-73wB3d-5dpfbn-2mDmHXy-5dtzFN-4FfeNF-5dpghk-5dpetM-5dtDcQ-5dpgtR-5dpehv-5dtDA1-5dpgop-5dtB7L-5dtzvq-5dpedH-5dtD2q-5dphSB-5dtCj5-2UCoqF-5dphx6-5dpiTg-5dtz1j-mwVhrB-5dpeyZ-3BVqZS-ByPk-2oMmzVg-bn6Mxv-2or7N5Z-2oz3SnJ-2nbbWrk-2ovGRet-2mHC1Ca-aTTh8p-2oFtES4-2oCeJrd-24Yann9-2kXYepn-2kVf7xA-2zjw8g-nxKcJv-JPyofm-2n6ey9u-2nkwMxX\" title=\"drake\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3261\/2448850113_d0aff9dea5_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"drake\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the word <strong>drake<\/strong>, as in a male duck, comes from Middle English <em>drake<\/em> (male duck, drake), from Old English <em>*draca<\/em>, an abbreviated form of <em>*andraca<\/em> (male duck, drake, lit. \u201cduck-king\u201d), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*anadrek\u014d<\/em> (duck leader), from <em>*anad<\/em> (duck) and\u200e <em>*rek\u014d<\/em> (king, ruler, leader) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/drake#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What links the word tarragon to words like dragon and drake? Tarragon is a perennial herb of the wormwood species Artemisia dracunculus native to Europe and Asia. It\u2019s also known as estragon, dragon\u2019s wort or silky wormwood. Other names are available. The word tarragon comes from Middle French targon (tarragon), from Medieval Latin tragonia (tarragon), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,86,104,107,10,15,26,27,33,202,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-arabic","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-middle-french","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-west-germanic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164","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=23164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23165,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23164\/revisions\/23165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}