{"id":24236,"date":"2025-10-08T14:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24236"},"modified":"2025-10-08T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T14:10:00","slug":"gluten-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24236","title":{"rendered":"Gluten Glue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the words <strong>glue<\/strong> and <strong>gluten<\/strong> are related to each other, and to the word <strong>clay<\/strong>? <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ibara\/2230128670\/in\/photolist-2iDpUVQ-8H2a99-SLQAtk-ccdd3b-nzBki9-piBVcz-qGXir5-21wY4RL-9phiwS-KLxZMr-MHQ5xf-71nm8p-6ptGaX-aoJEjq-ckMLeq-6CYPdn-paEDp-caCyMm-a8rGZH-4p4Zyj-2iaXSMQ-4pGcfF-6Vo3TK-Qxmiw-5LZtNb-bmYpm8-2eGdSjY-D8sSwr-eGaseq-bE3ULS-4YdGA8-bVxh6X-2kNR2CT-8SSNVR-2mVApZi-aPnCTc-9P5FkB-bsY7sQ-6FBRwM-aV6CM8-56dSDe-afmvVc-6Gwswj-2kzSE3Y-7kjvy4-2467dN-dqMtCg-qQvMjY-FKYXL-9th2eS\" title=\"Glue\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/2353\/2230128670_926a67b513_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Glue\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Glue<\/strong> [\u0261lu\u02d0] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance.<\/li>\n<li>Anything that binds two things or people together.<\/li>\n<li>A viscid secretion on the surface of certain plants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>glew<\/em> [\u0261liu\u032f] (glue, birdlime, tar, resin), from Old French <em>glu<\/em> (glue, birdlime), from Late Latin <em>gl\u016bs<\/em>, from Latin <em>gl\u016bten<\/em> (glue), from Proto-Italic <em>*gloiten<\/em>, from Proto-Indo-European <em>*gl\u00f3h\u2081ytn\u0325<\/em>, from <em>*gleyH-<\/em> (to smear, to stick, glue, putty) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/glue#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gluten<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0261lu\u02d0t\u0259n \/ \u02c8\u0261lu\u02d0tn\u0329] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The major protein in cereal grains, especially wheat; responsible for the elasticity in dough and the structure in baked bread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle French <em>gluten<\/em>, from Latin <em>gl\u016bten<\/em> (glue), etc. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gluten#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Clay<\/strong> [kle\u026a] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>cley<\/em>, from Old English <em>cl\u01e3\u0121<\/em> (clay), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*klaij<\/em> (clay), from Proto-Germanic <em>*klajjaz<\/em> (clay), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*gloy-(y)\u00f3-s<\/em>, from <em>*gleyH-<\/em> (to smear, to stick, glue, putty) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gluten#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>So they all come from the same PIE root. Other words from that root include <strong>glynu<\/strong> (to stick, adhere, settle) in Welsh, <strong>kl\u00edna<\/strong> (to smear) in Icelandic, <strong>glina<\/strong> (clay, loam) in Polish, <strong>liiv<\/strong> (sand) in Estonian, <strong>klei<\/strong> (clay) in Dutch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/gleyH-\">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<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the words glue and gluten are related to each other, and to the word clay? Glue [\u0261lu\u02d0] is: A hard gelatin made by boiling bones and hides, used in solution as an adhesive; or any sticky adhesive substance. Anything that binds two things or people together. A viscid secretion on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,106,107,124,10,302,15,26,33,39,44,45,46,202,77,78],"tags":[506,164,158,504,505,138,281,163],"class_list":["post-24236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-estonian","category-etymology","category-icelandic","category-language","category-late-latin","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-polish","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-italic","category-proto-west-germanic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases","tag-clay","tag-english","tag-etymology","tag-glue","tag-gluten","tag-language","tag-omniglot","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236","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=24236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24250,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions\/24250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}