{"id":24003,"date":"2025-04-23T20:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24003"},"modified":"2025-04-23T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T20:55:36","slug":"calm-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24003","title":{"rendered":"Calm Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word <strong>calm<\/strong> seems to a cool and collected kind word, but it possibly has roots related to <strong>heat<\/strong> or <strong>burning<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s find out more.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/54445200685\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Afon Cegin, Porth Penrhyn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54445200685_26a2ea1e12_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Afon Cegin, Porth Penrhyn\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calm<\/strong> is [k\u0251\u02d0m \/ k\u0251m] means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peaceful, quiet, especialy free from anger and anxiety<\/li>\n<li>Free of noise and disturbance<\/li>\n<li>With few or no waves on the surface (<em>of water<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Without wind of storm (<em>of weather<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>calm(e)<\/em> (calm), from Middle French <em>calme<\/em> (calm, still, windless), probably from Old Italian <em>calma<\/em> (calm, stillness, peacefulness), possibly from Late Latin <em>cauma<\/em> (heat [of the midday sun]), from Ancient Greek <em>\u03ba\u03b1\u1fe6\u03bc\u03b1<\/em> (ka\u00fbma &#8211; heat, especially of the sun), from <em>\u03ba\u03b1\u03af\u03c9<\/em> (ka\u00edo &#8211; to light, burn, cause to be extremely cold); or possibly from Latin <em>cale\u014d<\/em> (to be warm, heat, glow), from Proto-Germanic <em>*kalmaz<\/em> (coldness, freeze, frost), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*gel-<\/em> (to be cold, to freeze) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/calm#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same roots include <strong>cold<\/strong>, <strong>chill<\/strong>, <strong>cool<\/strong>, <strong>gel<\/strong> and <strong>jelly<\/strong> in English, <strong>koud<\/strong> (cold) in Dutch, <strong>kalt<\/strong> (cold, chilly, calm, restrained) in German, <strong>gelato<\/strong> (icy, frozen, very cold, ice cream) in Italian, and <strong>kylm\u00e4<\/strong> (cold, level, sensible) in Finnish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/gel-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Old English, the word <em>smylte<\/em> was used to mean calm, and also quiet, tranquil and serene. This became <em>smilte, smolt<\/em> (quiet, still, gentle) in Middle English, and may be related to the modern English word <strong>smolt<\/strong> (a young salmon two or three years old) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/smylte#Old_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/arsart\/4431440519\/in\/photolist-7KAhST-9AUF1h-2maoGdG-HACjXt-fpeXKh-9f8tWQ-QV5MVF-8Duoa9-4siwZ8-7NA9em-2i85uu6-8QU4QX-5Z5SX6-WEq1o-7bRrmK-fd2M2x-ehkypj-81PCGf-mtNctm-uhyJEG-87d8VD-2iVtiHM-9zD4g3-btNM8H-foLaFo-86tZjm-8Dq7iQ-DzLTx1-8SGGwA-in6z8K-wS3rjN-ouaWYd-9ePtHp-ejkYwQ-9QYFzV-9zA5Ri-86u2xY-in65Vo-2iVw4rh-JfwqcN-5LDsUK-8DnwUr-cc6ra1-dpYTZW-9R2wZ7-MBTXSo-Dv1tJD-dgezYR-71WMc7-a9C8SY\" title=\"KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4013\/4431440519_62663ab675_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the famous poster featuring the slogan &#8220;Keep Calm and Carry On&#8221; (see above), was produced by the Ministry of Information of UK government in 1939 in preparation for World War II. It was intended to raise the morale of the British public, and while 2.45 million copies were printed, in was never officially released, and most posters were pulped in 1940. A few did make it into the wild, and the poster became famous when a copy was rediscovered at a bookshop in Alnwick in the northeast of England in 2000 [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word calm seems to a cool and collected kind word, but it possibly has roots related to heat or burning. Let&#8217;s find out more. Calm is [k\u0251\u02d0m \/ k\u0251m] means: Peaceful, quiet, especialy free from anger and anxiety Free of noise and disturbance With few or no waves on the surface (of water) Without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,102,104,107,109,116,128,10,302,15,26,27,33,44,45,78],"tags":[392,164,158,393,138,163],"class_list":["post-24003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-greek-","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-finnish","category-german","category-italian","category-language","category-late-latin","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-middle-french","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases","tag-calm","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-keep-calm-and-carry-on","tag-language","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003","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=24003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24004,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24003\/revisions\/24004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}