{"id":23282,"date":"2024-02-16T15:37:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:40:01","slug":"fictile-dairymaids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23282","title":{"rendered":"Fictile Dairymaids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting word yesterday that I hadn\u2019t seen before: <strong>fictile<\/strong>. It means capable of being moulded into the shape of an artifact or art work; moulded clay or earth; relating to earthenware, or capable of being led or directed. Synonyms include <strong>pliable<\/strong> and <strong>moldable<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mathers_museum\/15738594221\/in\/photolist-pYLpJM-nVNU12-pydZtf-qLCQ96-28ZGDc-evPeHB-qXuhay-iHP4FA-qKE1ih-qKUbdE-nzJorN-ChW3yS-qWAKjY-nhBLQr-gVU8WT-grQ4fe-qHGxpq-r1ufuv-qGUir5-pQF1VT-gVV9Vz-qGV9tA-R8pzHX-qZVeai-qH3HdB-qGGN26-q374Ja-qZo2KF-r1giEe-qGmmBC-qH8Zto-qGkKBs-qHaBzw-k1ZSdy-bBuXaX-qXXncJ-qJjHYX-mKvhnh-qHtj9w-6jAhMb-KnAppn-qHG1w1-qHFPh7-qGrrmZ-qU6BbY-qYRigQ-geq43w-dpsxYx-qH4mUi-gWbc7i\" title=\"Hopi Tewa Pot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7521\/15738594221_961cdbf1dc_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"527\" alt=\"Hopi Tewa Pot\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fictile<\/strong> comes from Latin <em>fictilus<\/em>, from <em>fictus<\/em> (feigned, fictitious, false), from <em>fing\u014d<\/em> (to shape, fashion, form, deceive, pretend), from Proto-Italic <em>*fing\u014d<\/em> (to knead, form), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*d\u02b0ey\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (to knead, form, shape) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fictile#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for the same roots include:  <strong>dairy<\/strong>,  <strong>dough<\/strong>,  <strong>feign<\/strong>, <strong>feint<\/strong>, <strong>fiction<\/strong>, <strong>figment<\/strong> and <strong>figure<\/strong> in English [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/d%CA%B0ey%C7%B5%CA%B0-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>dairy<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>daierie<\/em> (dairy, pantry, dairy farm), from <em>daie\/dey<\/em> (dairymaid),  from Old English <em>d\u01e3\u0121e<\/em> (maker of bread, baker, dairy-maid), from Proto-Germanic <em>*daigij\u01ed<\/em> (kneader of bread, maid), from Proto-Indo-European *<em>d\u02b0ey\u01f5\u02b0-<\/em> (to knead, form) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/dairy#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>lady<\/strong> has similar roots: from Middle English <em>ladie<\/em> (the mistress of servants; female head of a household, manor, etc), from Old English <em>hl\u01e3fd\u012b\u0121e<\/em> (mistress of a household, wife of a lord, lady), from  <em>hl\u0101f<\/em> (bread, loaf) and <em>d\u012b\u0121e<\/em> (kneader), which is related to <em>d\u01e3\u0121e<\/em> (maker of dough\/bread). So a lady was originally a \u201cbread-kneader\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/lady#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, <strong>dough<\/strong> is used as a slang term for <strong>money<\/strong>, as is <strong>bread<\/strong> . This is thought to have started during the 19th century. Bread was a traditional everyday necessity of life, and to earn one&#8217;s living was to earn one&#8217;s bread, or crust, so bread, and the dough it&#8217;s made from, became synonymous with money  [<a href=\"https:\/\/pocketsense.com\/did-word-dough-come-mean-money-8629.html\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The use of <strong>bread<\/strong> as slang for money may also be linked to Cockney Rhyming Slang &#8211; <strong>bread and honey<\/strong> = money. This should not be confused with <strong>bread and butter<\/strong> = gutter, or   <strong>bread and cheese<\/strong> = sneeze [<a href=\"https:\/\/happy2movelondon.co.uk\/complete-dictionary-of-cockney-rhyming-slang\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Ways to \u201cto earn a living\u201d or \u201cto earn a crust\u201d in Welsh include <strong>ennill eich bara menyn<\/strong> (to earn one\u2019s bread and butter) and <strong>ennill eich bara a chaws<\/strong> (to earn one\u2019s bread and cheese).<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting ways to say \u201cto earn a living\u201d in other languages?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting word yesterday that I hadn\u2019t seen before: fictile. It means capable of being moulded into the shape of an artifact or art work; moulded clay or earth; relating to earthenware, or capable of being led or directed. Synonyms include pliable and moldable. Fictile comes from Latin fictilus, from fictus (feigned, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,26,33,44,45,46,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282","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=23282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23286,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23282\/revisions\/23286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}