{"id":9944,"date":"2014-05-06T15:34:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9944"},"modified":"2014-05-06T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T15:34:24","slug":"market-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9944","title":{"rendered":"Market places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the origins of the word <strong>agora<\/strong> came up in conversation and I thought I&#8217;d find out more.<\/p>\n<p>An agora was a place of gathering or marketplace in Ancient Greece. It comes from the Ancient Greek <em>\u1f00\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u03c1\u03c9<\/em> [ageir\u014d] (I gather, collect), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*ger-<\/em> (to assemble, gather together), which is the root of the English words gregarious, aggregate, congregate, egregious, segregate, allegory, category, and panegyric, via the Latin <em>greg\u0101rius<\/em> (of the herd, common), which comes from <em>grex<\/em> (herd, flock).<\/p>\n<p>In Romance languages, such as Aragonese, Asuturian, Galician, Ladino, Mirandese and Portuguese, the word <em>agora<\/em> is also found, but it means &#8216;now&#8217; and comes from the Latin expression <em>h\u0101c h\u014dra<\/em> (&#8216;this hour&#8217;). The Spanish word <em>ahora<\/em> (now) comes from the same root. <em>h\u014dra<\/em> comes from the Ancient Greek <em>\u1f65\u03c1\u03b1<\/em> [h\u014dra] (time, season, year), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*y\u014dr-\u0101<\/em>, a suffixed form of <em>*y\u0113r\/*yeh\u2081r-<\/em> (year, season), which is the root of the English word year, and the words for year in many other Indo-European languages.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/agora\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The friend who asked about agora wondered whether the Welsh word <em>agor<\/em> (open) might come from the same root. I haven&#8217;t been able to find any information about this. Does anybody know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the origins of the word agora came up in conversation and I thought I&#8217;d find out more. An agora was a place of gathering or marketplace in Ancient Greece. It comes from the Ancient Greek \u1f00\u03b3\u03b5\u03af\u03c1\u03c9 [ageir\u014d] (I gather, collect), from the Proto-Indo-European *ger- (to assemble, gather together), which is the root of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,118,10,15,41,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944","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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}