{"id":1153,"date":"2021-05-02T20:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2021-05-02T20:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T20:22:03","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-7-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1153","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 7 \u2013 Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 7 \u2013 Session\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-05-02T20:17:35+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word session, because this afternoon I took part in a music session in a friend\u2019s garden, and I thought I\u2019d find out where the word comes from.\n\n\n\nSession comes from the Old French session (si...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/session.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6328\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1153-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/session.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/session.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/session.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\/session.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1153-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/session.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"session.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>On today\u2019s adventure we are looking at the origins of the word <strong>session<\/strong>, because this afternoon I took part in a music session in a friend\u2019s garden, and I thought I\u2019d find out where the word comes from.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/51153363386\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Music session \/ Sesiwn cerddoriaeth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51153363386_dabfe278ea_z.jpg\" alt=\"Music session \/ Sesiwn cerddoriaeth\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Session comes from the Old French <em>session<\/em> (sitting, (court) session), from the Latin <em>sessi\u014d<\/em> (a sitting, a seat, loitering), from <em>sede\u014d<\/em> (I sit), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*sed-<\/em> (to sit) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/session#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for to sit in Romance languages, such as <strong>sentar<\/strong> in Spanish and Portuguese, <strong>asseoir<\/strong> in French, come from the same Latin root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sedeo#Latin\">source<\/a>], and from same the Proto-Indo-European root we get English like <strong>assess<\/strong>, <strong>dissident<\/strong>, <strong>insidious<\/strong>, <strong>obsess<\/strong>, <strong>possess<\/strong>, <strong>reside<\/strong>, <strong>seat<\/strong>, <strong>sedentary<\/strong>, <strong>sedate<\/strong>, <strong>sit<\/strong> and <strong>siege<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*sed-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/vecW5G6Ecrg\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vecW5G6Ecrg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Session comes from the Old French session (sitting, (court) session), from the Latin sessi\u014d (a sitting, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,20,56,23,12,4,1,27,59,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-podcast","category-portuguese","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","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=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}