{"id":4873,"date":"2011-04-19T09:10:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T09:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=4873"},"modified":"2011-04-19T09:10:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T09:10:24","slug":"rheithgor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=4873","title":{"rendered":"Rheithgor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the word <strong>rheithgor<\/strong> (\/\u02c8r\u0329\u0259i\u03b8g\u0254r\/) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiocymru\/\">Radio Cymru<\/a> this morning in the context of a report on a trial, and guessed that it meant &#8216;jury&#8217;. The second element, <em>gor<\/em>, comes from <em>c\u00f4r<\/em> (\/ko\u02d0r\/) (choir, circle), and the first element, <em>rheith<\/em>, appears in such words as <em>rheithfawr<\/em> (greatly just), <em>rheithiad<\/em> (regulation), <em>rheithio<\/em> (to fix a law), <em>rheithiol<\/em> (established as law), and also in <em>rheitheg<\/em> (rhetoric) and <em>rheithegydd<\/em> (rhetorician). So <em>rheith<\/em> seems to have something to do with justice and law and a <em>rheithgor<\/em> could be a &#8216;law choir&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Another Welsh word that includes the element <em>c\u00f4r<\/em> is <em>pwyllgor<\/em> \/\u02c8p\u028a\u0268\u026cg\u0254r\/ (committee) &#8211; the <em>pwyll<\/em> part means &#8216;discretion; steadiness&#8217;, and a related word, <em>pwyllo<\/em>, means &#8216;to steady, consider, reason, reflect&#8217; &#8211; things that committees might do. <\/p>\n<p>The English word jury comes from the Anglo-Norman <em>jure(e)<\/em>, from the Old French <em>jur\u00e9e<\/em> (oath, juridical inquiry, inquest), from the medieval Latin <em>j\u016br\u0101ta<\/em>, from <em>i\u016br\u0101re<\/em> (to swear), from <em>i\u016bs<\/em> (law, duty), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*yAus-<\/em> (ritual purity; supreme justice), which is also the root of just and justice.<\/p>\n<p>The English word choir comes from the Middle English <em>quer(e)<\/em>, from the Old French <em>cuer<\/em> (church choir), from the  Latin <em>chorus<\/em> (a company of dancers, dance; company, band) from the Greek <em>\u03c7\u03bf\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> (dance, company of dancers or singers). Chorus comes from the same root.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: Y Geiriadur Mawr, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/19704\/19704-h\/19704-h.htm\">A Pocket Dictionary (Welsh-English)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\">Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/iuro#Latin\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard the word rheithgor (\/\u02c8r\u0329\u0259i\u03b8g\u0254r\/) on Radio Cymru this morning in the context of a report on a trial, and guessed that it meant &#8216;jury&#8217;. The second element, gor, comes from c\u00f4r (\/ko\u02d0r\/) (choir, circle), and the first element, rheith, appears in such words as rheithfawr (greatly just), rheithiad (regulation), rheithio (to fix a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,118,10,15,45,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873","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=4873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}