{"id":5969,"date":"2011-09-30T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=5969"},"modified":"2011-09-30T10:28:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:28:19","slug":"nursery-rhymes-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=5969","title":{"rendered":"Nursery rhymes and computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Comptine<\/strong> \/k\u0254\u0303tin\/ is the French for nursery rhyme or for a counting rhyme or song. I learnt it last night and thought I&#8217;d look into where it comes from.<\/p>\n<p>According <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/comptine\">Wiktionnaire<\/a>, <em>comptine<\/em> is made up of <em>compte<\/em> (count, number, account) and the suffix <em>-ine<\/em>. <em>Compte<\/em> \/k\u0254\u0303t\/  comes from <em>computus<\/em> (count, number, account, calculation), from <em>computo<\/em> (to count &#8211; <em>computer<\/em> in French), from <em>con-<\/em> (suffix = with; all) and <em>put\u014d<\/em> (to think, suppose, reckon, count, prune), perhaps from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*pu-<\/em> (to wash).<\/p>\n<p>My French dictionary says that <em>comptine<\/em> refers particularly to nursery rhymes involving counting, which is reflected in its etymology. Other words for children&#8217;s songs include <em>chansons pour enfant<\/em> (songs for children) and <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/french-english\/Berceuse\"><em>berceuse<\/em><\/a> (lullaby, cradle song, hushaby, rocking chair), which also means nursemaid, and comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bercer\"><em>bercer<\/em><\/a> (to rock, cradle, lull), which apparently comes from Gaulish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/comptine.free.fr\/\">Comptines et chansons pour enfant<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.momes.net\/comptines\/comptines-chansons.html\">Toutes les comptines et chansons pour enfants<\/a><br \/>\n &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comptines.net\/\">Comptines.net &#8211; Paroles de Comptines et Berceuses pour enfants et b\u00e9bes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comptine \/k\u0254\u0303tin\/ is the French for nursery rhyme or for a counting rhyme or song. I learnt it last night and thought I&#8217;d look into where it comes from. According Wiktionnaire, comptine is made up of compte (count, number, account) and the suffix -ine. Compte \/k\u0254\u0303t\/ comes from computus (count, number, account, calculation), from computo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,29,45,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-music","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969","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=5969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}