{"id":1111,"date":"2021-04-04T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:31:34","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-3-eggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1111","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 3 &#8211; Eggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 3 &amp;#8211; Eggs\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-04T12:09:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As it is Easter - Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it, or Happy Sunday to those who don\u2019t - I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of an important Easter-related word, no not Easter, but egg.\n\n\n\nThe word egg comes the Middle English egge, from...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6313\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1111-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1111-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"eggs.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As it is Easter &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/easter.htm\">Happy Easter<\/a> to those of you who celebrate it, or Happy Sunday to those who don\u2019t &#8211; I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of an important Easter-related word, no not Easter, but <strong>egg<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mochick\/3457751419\/in\/photolist-6gxT2M-85eVo5-rpsM1M-2jEKjC1-EQ7LmK-FA1nBU-6esz98-EwfNwk-UenGC2-UenDkR-bKxkiz-bKxkxe-5Lk5Ak-nb9jrW-3pBc44-TugbSk-WrTgi4-bKxm9g-bwCBfb-bwCAto-bwCBQj-bJ3U8n-Emp8-9Bg5MJ-cxdP6-2gx1DXK-bJ3Vyn-e7rCch-FMDDyg-bxYKm7-bKbGKp-FGiYF-e817i5-4tqJ7V-Dd457-7S18Az-boZQM7-dVk4QL-F8EyS6-dVH9Qs-dVH9PJ-9GDEZu-dVH9Ns-9GDEZh-osLqgW-dVjSL9-bHyVLr-4T9A6u-3x6xR-e817o1\" title=\"Eggs.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3544\/3457751419_1079399eef_z.jpg\" alt=\"Eggs.\" width=\"640\" height=\"256\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word egg comes the Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic <em>*ajj\u0105<\/em> [\u02c8\u0251j.j\u0251\u0303], from Proto-Indo-European <em>*h\u2082\u014dwy\u00f3m<\/em> (egg), probably from <em>*h\u2082\u00e9wis<\/em> (bird) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/egg#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Egg, with the same spelling, is also found in Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian, and with different spelling in Swedish and Danish, pronounced slightly different in each language &#8211; egg [\u02c8\u025bk\u02d0] in Icelandic, egg [\u025bk\u02d0] in Faroese, egg [\u025b\u0261] in Norwegian, <strong>\u00e4gg<\/strong> [\u025b\u0261\u02d0] in Swedish, and in <strong>\u00e6g<\/strong> [\u02c8\u025b\u02c0\u0261\u030a] Danish. In Dutch and German, words for egg are like the original English word: Ei [a\u026a\u032f] in German and ei [\u025bi\u032f] in Dutch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/ajj%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The originally English word for egg was <strong>ey<\/strong> [ei] from the Old English <em>\u01e3\u0121<\/em> [\u00e6\u02d0j], from the same Proto-Germanic root as egg. It was used until the 16th century, when it was replaced with egg, possibly because it got confused with the word <strong>eye<\/strong>, as in the thing you see with [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ey#Middle_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a video I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHGwVRHOBhI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video made with <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/37vAg5P\">Doodly<\/a>\u200b &#8211; an easy-to-use animated video creator [affiliate link].<\/p>\n<p>I also write about etymology on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support this podcast, you can make a donation via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=aLjPfXL-vP_1gQ_U23Iz8_hSWLlhzLHPMFZrt32dIEfG8htoNFLYaPoWkv8&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63\">PayPal<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/omniglot\">Patreon<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/donations.htm\">contribute to Omniglot in other ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/create.blubrry.com\/resources\/podcast-media-hosting\/?code=omniglot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_blubrry.png\" alt=\"Blubrry podcast hosting\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 3 &amp;#8211; Eggs\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-04T12:09:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As it is Easter - Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it, or Happy Sunday to those who don\u2019t - I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of an important Easter-related word, no not Easter, but egg.\n\n\n\nThe word egg comes the Middle English egge, from...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6314\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1111-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1111-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/eggs.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"eggs.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As it is Easter &#8211; Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it, or Happy Sunday to those who don\u2019t &#8211; I thought I\u2019d look into the origins of an important Easter-related word, no not Easter, but egg. The word egg comes the Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajj\u0105 [\u02c8\u0251j.j\u0251\u0303], [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,31,47,20,56,95,24,29,4,58,11,84,55,1,57,59,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese-foroyskt-mal","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-middle-english","category-music","category-norwegian-norsk","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}