{"id":3689,"date":"2010-10-13T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3689"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T11:00:40","slug":"jumpers-and-sea-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3689","title":{"rendered":"Jumpers and sea pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Llamhidydd<\/p>\n

Llamhidydd<\/strong>, (n\/m) [pl. llamhidyddion] – porpoise, dancer, acrobat, jumper<\/p>\n

Today’s word appears in a book<\/a> I’m reading at the moment and is a new one to me. I’m not sure about the etymology of the hid<\/em> part, but llam<\/em> means jump, and the suffix -ydd<\/em> indicates a person or agent.<\/p>\n

As well as jump, llam<\/em> also means fate, leap, bound, stride, step, and is found in such words as llamddelw<\/em> – puppet (jump + image\/idol); llamu<\/em> and llamsach<\/em> – to jump; llawsachus<\/em> – capering, prancing, and llamwr<\/em> – leaper. Llam<\/em> most likely comes from the same root as the Irish l\u00e9im<\/em>, Scottish Gaelic leum<\/em>, Manx lheim<\/em>, Cornish lamma<\/em> and Breton lam<\/em>. More common Welsh words for jump and to jump are naid<\/em> and neidio<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Other Welsh words for porpoise include m\u00f4r-fochyn<\/em> (sea pig) and morhwch<\/em> (sea sow), which is also applied to dolphins. The Irish for porpose is muc mhara<\/em> (sea pig).<\/p>\n

The English word porpoise<\/strong> comes from the French pourpois<\/em>, which is from Medieval Latin porcopiscus<\/em>, which is a compound of porcus<\/em> (pig) and piscus<\/em> (fish). <\/p>\n

Another English word for porpoise is apparently mereswine<\/strong>, the roots of which can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic *marisw\u012bnaz<\/em> (dolphin, porpoise), from *mari\/*mariz<\/em> (sea) and *sw\u012bnaz\/*sw\u012bnan<\/em> (swine, pig), via the Middle English mereswin<\/em> and the Old English meresw\u012bn<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Llamhidydd, (n\/m) [pl. llamhidyddion] – porpoise, dancer, acrobat, jumper Today’s word appears in a book I’m reading at the moment and is a new one to me. I’m not sure about the etymology of the hid part, but llam means jump, and the suffix -ydd indicates a person or agent. As well as jump, llam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,104,107,127,10,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-irish","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689","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=3689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}