{"id":6347,"date":"2011-12-07T16:31:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6347"},"modified":"2011-12-07T16:31:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:31:27","slug":"tables-chairs-stools-and-cathedrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6347","title":{"rendered":"Tables, chairs, stools and cathedrals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian word for table (the piece of furniture) is <em>\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b<\/em> (\/stol\/) which sounds a bit like stool in English. In most other Slavic languages the words for table are simliar: <em>\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b<\/em> (Belarusian), <em>stol<\/em> (Croatian), <em>st\u016fl<\/em> (Czech), <em>stol\u016d<\/em> (Old Church Slavonic = throne, seat), <em>st\u00f3\u0142<\/em> (Polish), <em>\u0441\u0442\u043e<\/em> (Serbian), <em>st\u00f4l<\/em> (Slovak) and <em>\u0441\u0442\u0456\u043b<\/em> (Ukrainian). Although in Bulgarian and Macedonian <em>\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b<\/em> means chair and table is <em>\u043c\u0430\u0441\u0430<\/em> (masa), and in Slovenian a table is <em>miza<\/em> and chair is <em>stol<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian for chair is <em>\u0441\u0442\u0443\u043b<\/em> (\/stul\/), which sounds even more like stool, and stool is <em>\u0442\u0430\u0431\u0443\u0440\u0435\u0442\u043a\u0430<\/em> (\/tabur\u02b2etka\/), which probably comes from the French word for stool, <em>tabouret<\/em>. The English word stool comes from the Old English <em>st\u00f3l<\/em> (seat for one person), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*st\u014dlaz<\/em>, probably from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*st\u014d-\/sta-<\/em> (to stand). The Slavic words for table probably come from the same root.<\/p>\n<p>Stool came to mean a small seat without arms or a back when the word chair was adopted from French, via the Middle English <em>chaere\/chaiere<\/em> from the Old French <em>cha\u00ebre<\/em> from the Latin <em>cathedra<\/em> (seat), from the Greek <em>\u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03b4\u03c1\u03b1<\/em> (chair, especially the seat of a bishop, or a teacher&#8217;s or professor&#8217;s chair) from <em>\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03ac<\/em> (down) and <em>\u1f11\u03b4<\/em> (sit). In modern French the word <em>chaire<\/em> means a pulpit or a university chair (professorship), while a normal chair that you sit on is a <em>chaise<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The English word table comes from the the classical Latin word <em>tabula<\/em> (board, plank, writing\/votive tablet, map, picture), and was influenced by the Anglo-Norman <em>tabul\/tabull<\/em> (board, plank, writing table, picture). The origin of the Latin word <em>tabula<\/em> is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/oed.com\/view\/Entry\/190864?rskey=BGetN7&#038;result=1&#038;isAdvanced=false#eid\">OED<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/russian-english\/stool\/\">Reverso<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=stool\">Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian word for table (the piece of furniture) is \u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b (\/stol\/) which sounds a bit like stool in English. In most other Slavic languages the words for table are simliar: \u0441\u0442\u043e\u043b (Belarusian), stol (Croatian), st\u016fl (Czech), stol\u016d (Old Church Slavonic = throne, seat), st\u00f3\u0142 (Polish), \u0441\u0442\u043e (Serbian), st\u00f4l (Slovak) and \u0441\u0442\u0456\u043b (Ukrainian). 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