{"id":1120,"date":"2021-04-11T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2021-04-13T12:37:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:37:40","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-4-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 4 &#8211; April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 4 &amp;#8211; April\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-11T12:18:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As we are in the month of April, I thought I\u2019d look at the origins of that word.\n\n\n\nApril comes from the Middle English apprile, which was originally aueril, from the Old French avrill, but was re-Latinised to make it like the Latin word Apr\u012blis (of ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3394\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1120-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.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\/april.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1120-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"april.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As we are in the month of <strong>April<\/strong>, I thought I\u2019d look at the origins of that word.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/41564259342\/in\/photolist-26jTGe5-26orTQZ-26jTxGA\" title=\"Spring blossom \/ Blodau'r Gwanyn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/845\/41564259342_e6200fe701_z.jpg\" alt=\"Spring blossom \/ Blodau'r Gwanyn\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>April comes from the Middle English <em>apprile<\/em>, which was originally <em>aueril<\/em>, from the Old French <em>avrill<\/em>, but was re-Latinised to make it like the Latin word <em>Apr\u012blis<\/em> (of the month of the goddess Venus), which possibly came from the Etruscan <em>\ud800\udf00\ud800\udf10\ud800\udf13\ud800\udf16<\/em> (apru), from the Ancient Greek <em>\u1f08\u03c6\u03c1\u03bf\u03b4\u03af\u03c4\u03b7<\/em> (Aphrod\u00edt\u0113), the goddess of love and beauty [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/April#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The originally Old English word for April was <em>\u0113asterm\u014dna\u00fe<\/em>, or \u201cEastermonth\u201d, named after the goddess <strong>\u0112astre<\/strong>, whose name is related to a Proto-Indo-European word for dawn and east (*h\u2082ews-). The word <strong>Eastermonth<\/strong> also exists in modern English, but is only used in poetry [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Eastermonth#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/time\/months.htm\">Words for April, and other months, in many languages<\/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\/2isuahtwdCY\" 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>Here&#8217;s a Spring-related tune I wrote: <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/springatlast\">Spring at Last \/ Gwanwyn o&#8217;r Diwedd<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/427791939&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\" title=\"Simon Ager\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Ager<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/springatlast\" title=\"Spring at Last \/ Gwanwyn o'r Diwedd\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Spring at Last \/ Gwanwyn o&#8217;r Diwedd<\/a><\/div>\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 4 &amp;#8211; April\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-04-11T12:18:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As we are in the month of April, I thought I\u2019d look at the origins of that word.\n\n\n\nApril comes from the Middle English apprile, which was originally aueril, from the Old French avrill, but was re-Latinised to make it like the Latin word Apr\u012blis (of ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3395\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1120-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.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\/april.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1120-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/april.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"april.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As we are in the month of April, I thought I\u2019d look at the origins of that word. April comes from the Middle English apprile, which was originally aueril, from the Old French avrill, but was re-Latinised to make it like the Latin word Apr\u012blis (of the month of the goddess Venus), which possibly came [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,97,20,96,56,4,50,58,11,55,1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etruscan-mekh-rasnal","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-music","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1127,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}