{"id":9657,"date":"2014-02-21T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9657"},"modified":"2014-02-21T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T20:28:14","slug":"ilka-dae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9657","title":{"rendered":"Ilka dae"},"content":{"rendered":"

While flicking through my Scots language course, Luath Scots Language Learner<\/em>, this week I discovered that the Scots for every day is ilka dae<\/strong>, which is quite similar to the Dutch elke dag<\/em>, which I also learnt recently – I like finding connections like this. Neither resembles the English version, or the German jeden Tag<\/em>. The words for every in other Germanic languages are also different: hver\/alle<\/em> in Danish, hver\/enhver\/all<\/em> Norwegian, and var\/all<\/em> in Swedish.<\/p>\n

The Scots word ilka [\u02c8\u026alk\u0259], which is also written ilkae and ilkie, means every and each. It appears in such expressions as:<\/p>\n

– ilka bodie = everyone
\n– ilka thing = everything
\n– ilka ane (yin\/een) = each one, every one
\n– ilkaday = everyday
\n– ilka where = everywhere<\/p>\n

According to the OED ilka is a combination of ilk (every) and a (the indefinite article): ilk is a northern and north-midland form of ilch<\/em>, iche<\/em> = southern \u00e6lch<\/em>, \u00e6che<\/em> (each), which come from the Old English \u01fdlc<\/em>, which is related to the Old Frisian ell\u00eek\/elk\/\u00eak<\/em>, and the Dutch elk<\/em>, from the Old High German eogil\u00eeh<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sources: bab.la Dictionary<\/a>, Reverso<\/a>, DSL<\/a>, EUdict<\/a>, OED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While flicking through my Scots language course, Luath Scots Language Learner, this week I discovered that the Scots for every day is ilka dae, which is quite similar to the Dutch elke dag, which I also learnt recently – I like finding connections like this. Neither resembles the English version, or the German jeden Tag. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,116,10,31,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-norwegian","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657","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=9657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}