{"id":23275,"date":"2024-02-09T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23275"},"modified":"2024-02-09T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T18:27:35","slug":"mud-glorious-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23275","title":{"rendered":"Mud Glorious Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in a muddy place, or want to describe such a place, you could use the old word <strong>lutarious<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ucumari\/42273104520\/in\/photolist-CqPvVK-5NiUKj-7d1BiF-27pwHcE-dkk4wG-bSYoXK-qxfun2-nnVGyg-YdTTf7-LosL9c-7fy11o-64LDmk-22FczF9-PHKSV-2f9AhFf-9TbZyK-dbGspk-24SkFg4-SeZLZ2-dWdqJ4-68U7Xn-68U88F-qPvSat-5ANP2d-9coc56-atLSLU-ZFBj8q-Fr6Rf9-nofvqE-pwmh6n-Zn1HwS-dQX4Mq-FrVLoE-68RZvR-xVzNLN-jBMnx-Gbc6gM-252DXVe-rc8jwK-fJnZJb-LeqBCN-vRndBE-FkWhvf-Qf84Vm-7nULiJ-4ByK6J-izsrmi-8GmrpW-ebYEE5-CHvHgp\" title=\"cute and muddy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1780\/42273104520_1236fc690a_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" alt=\"cute and muddy\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It means \u201cof, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud\u201d, and comes from the Latin word <em>lutarius<\/em> (of or belonging to the mud, living in mud), from <em>lutum<\/em> (mud, soil, dirt, mire, loam, clay), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*lew-<\/em> (dirt, mud) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/lutarious#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A related word is <strong>lutulent<\/strong> [\u02c8l\u028ctj\u028al\u0259nt], which means pertaining to mud, or muddy.<\/p>\n<p>Words for the same roots include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Albanian: <strong>lluc\u00eb<\/strong> = thin or shallow mud, muddy place<\/li>\n<li>Portuguese: <strong>lodoso<\/strong> = muddy<\/li>\n<li>Romanian: <strong>lut<\/strong> = clay, loam, mud, dirt, <strong>lutos<\/strong> = clayey<\/li>\n<li>Spanish: <strong>lodo<\/strong> = mud, muck, mire, <strong>lodoso<\/strong> = muddy, boddy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lutetia<\/strong>, the Gallo-Roman town founded in 52 BC that became Paris, gets it\u2019s name from the Gaulish word <em>*lutos<\/em> (swamp), from Proto-Celtic <em>*lut\u0101<\/em> (dirt, mud), from PIE <em>*lew-<\/em> (dirt, mud). It was known as <em>Lutetia Parisiorum<\/em> by the Romans. The <em>Parisiorum<\/em> part comes from <em>Par\u012bsi\u012b<\/em>, the Latin name for the Gaulish tribe who lived in the area. The name <strong>Paris<\/strong> comes from the same roots.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more details on  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3202\">Radio Omniglot<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the French word <strong>boue<\/strong> [bu] (mud, dirt), also has Celtic roots: it comes from the Gaulish <em>*baw\u0101<\/em> (mud, dirt), from   Proto-Celtic <em>*bow\u0101<\/em> (dirt, filth, excrement), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b7ewh\u2081-<\/em> (excrement, dung) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/boue#French\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The Galician word <strong>bosta<\/strong> (dung, manure) comes from the same Celtic roots, as do the Welsh words <strong>baw<\/strong> (mud) and <strong>budr<\/strong> (dirty, filthy, vile, foul) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/bow%C4%81\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/r36ariadne\/3944143870\/in\/photolist-q9t2Cn-KntXPg-2kGYveK-4BLq7d-LLyEW5-gbQVkq-J4X2Sy-2oEfhnq-aoowbj-YF9SqG-HBit7J-9orEfv-2nCseCg-pVtULS-6wnGLP-XLniyT-71wLyw-96R4NE-6aj8ZS-VUg7YY-2mActio-2k7pxka-tUwT-f7yXU3-2tr5A-2nP3t7h-g3CGBH-5s2rEu-2ocLRsJ-cRTjkj-fjQrqg-jXVqqC-2jxHnah-j3no1a-at32Av-dzUzun-ZFFNQm-5Ptw4z-oyHvGg-24CTT5-eagTUv-tAR2sb-73Q8Au-aT5Jm-33jejK-g3Diwv-fnctDf-ufsEH4-MDU15X-efymvu\" title=\"Gwineas buoy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2539\/3944143870_fccecd491f_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Gwineas buoy\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The French word <strong>boue<\/strong> shouldn\u2019t be confused with the Breton word <strong>boue<\/strong> [\u02c8bu\u02d0.e], which means <strong>buoy<\/strong>. It comes from Middle English <em>boi(e)<\/em> (buoy), from Middle Dutch <em>boeye<\/em>, from Old Dutch <em>*b\u014dcan<\/em>, from Frankish <em>*baukn<\/em> (symbol, sign) from Proto-Germanic <em>*baukn\u0105<\/em> (sign, symbol), from PIE <em>*b\u02b0eh\u2082-<\/em> (to glow, light, shine)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/boue#Breton\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>By the way, do you pronounce <strong>buoy<\/strong> [b\u0254\u026a] (boy) or [\u02c8bu.i] (boo-ee), or some other way?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in a muddy place, or want to describe such a place, you could use the old word lutarious. It means \u201cof, pertaining to, or like, mud; living in mud\u201d, and comes from the Latin word lutarius (of or belonging to the mud, living in mud), from lutum (mud, soil, dirt, mire, loam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[183,92,104,107,110,111,113,10,15,182,26,41,43,44,45,51,64,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albanian-shqip","category-breton","category-english","category-etymology","category-frankish","category-french","category-galician","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-middle-english","category-portuguese","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-romanian","category-spanish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275","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=23275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23278,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23275\/revisions\/23278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}