{"id":23221,"date":"2023-12-30T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23221"},"modified":"2023-12-30T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T16:58:02","slug":"laxness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23221","title":{"rendered":"Laxness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the days between Christmas and New Year things may seem a bit more <strong>lax<\/strong> than usual, so I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of the word.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dvorscak\/4173460486\/in\/photolist-7mN5ph-bWhP4U-2jMnm6u-He671J-yBLh79-2jYcjdp-7TJ58y-4bQWk-onSiQ4-ihrNo2-2jvfTFG-2svyz6-6PAYLb-3qP4Hd-HU2VzC-2mYvR6i-4t1gLF-2g3zKGt-bxEtBT-9duN6C-4bMF36-aN4HWk-8cicv7-64q8Pz-24dJaQR-8453wu-gu9e6G-6eQ6JD-2g3htA6-2oHppnj-23zDZ-dyFfHu-2fjvJuP-bftWR-2kBZBHz-Cd7s-6ufkMm-4VroCe-2j8z642-oeoVQg-bBX1SN-5tkx6a-8DUPdC-bN7Ay-crBp3J-5aMXmG-SgWPDw-6VBTw9-4A8JXH-2oGP5vP\" title=\"lazy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2513\/4173460486_b92093c6d9_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lax<\/strong> means lenient and allowing for deviation, not strict, loose, not tight or taut, lacking care, neglectful or negligent. It comes from the Latin <em>laxus<\/em> (wide, roomy, loose), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*sl\u01f5-so<\/em> (weak, faint) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/lax#Etymology_2\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>leash<\/strong> comes from the same roots, via the Middle English <em>lesse<\/em> (a leash for holding a coursing hound or watchdog) [<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/MED25224\/track?counter=1&#038;search_id=52409600\">source<\/a>], the Old French <em>lesse<\/em> (leash, lead), and the Latin <em>lax\u0101<\/em> (thong, a loose cord), from <em>laxus<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/leash#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>lease<\/strong> also comes from the same roots, at least partly: from Middle English <em>*lesen<\/em>, the Anglo-Norman <em>lesser\/lasier<\/em> (to let, let go), from Latin <em>lax\u014d<\/em> (to loose) from <em>laxus<\/em>, and partly from Old High German <em>l\u0101zan<\/em> (to let, let go, release) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/lease#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words in other languages include <strong>laks<\/strong> (lax, slack) in Dutch, <strong>l\u00e2che<\/strong> (loose, slack, coward(ly), low, lazy) in French, <strong>lax<\/strong> (lax, easy, loose) in Geman, and <strong>llaes<\/strong> (loose, slack, free, trailing, flowing, low) in Welsh [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/laxus#Latin\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the days between Christmas and New Year things may seem a bit more lax than usual, so I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of the word. Lax means lenient and allowing for deviation, not strict, loose, not tight or taut, lacking care, neglectful or negligent. It comes from the Latin laxus (wide, roomy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,102,104,107,111,116,10,15,26,34,45,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-norman","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-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\/23221","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=23221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23222,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23221\/revisions\/23222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}