{"id":1159,"date":"2021-05-09T14:46:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T14:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:43:20","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-8-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 8 &#8211; Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 8 &amp;#8211; Mother\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-05-09T14:46:54+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As today is Mother\u2019s Day in many countries around the world, though not here in the UK, we are looking at the origins of the word mother.\n\n\n\nMother comes from the Middle English moder [\u02c8mo\u02d0d\u0259r\/\u02c8mo\u02d0\u00f0\u0259r], from the Old English m\u014ddor [\u02c8mo\u02d0.dor], from the...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6200\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1159-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.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\/mother.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1159-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"mother.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As today is Mother\u2019s Day in many countries around the world, though not here in the UK, we are looking at the origins of the word <strong>mother<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/mother.gif\" alt=\"Mother\" width=\"600\" height=\"230\"><\/p>\n<p>Mother comes from the Middle English <em>moder<\/em> [\u02c8mo\u02d0d\u0259r\/\u02c8mo\u02d0\u00f0\u0259r], from the Old English <em>m\u014ddor<\/em> [\u02c8mo\u02d0.dor], from the Proto-Germanic <em>*m\u014dd\u0113r<\/em> [\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0.\u00f0\u025b\u02d0r], from Proto-Indo-European <em>*m\u00e9h\u2082t\u0113r<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mother#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for mother in most Indo-European languages come from the same root, including <strong>moeder<\/strong> [\u02c8mu.d\u0259r] in Dutch, <strong>Mutter<\/strong> [\u02c8m\u028at\u0250] in German, and <strong>m\u00f3\u00f0ir<\/strong> [\u02c8mou\u02d0\u00f0\u026ar] in Icelandic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/m%C5%8Dd%C4%93r\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some related words include <strong>matriarch<\/strong>, <strong>matron<\/strong>, <strong>maternal<\/strong>, <strong>matrimony<\/strong>, <strong>material<\/strong>, <strong>matriculate<\/strong>, <strong>matrix<\/strong> and <strong>matter<\/strong>, all of which come ultimately from the Latin <em>m\u0101ter<\/em> (mother, matron, woman, nurse) via French [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mother#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3Fuxdudn1js\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3Fuxdudn1js\" 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> &#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 8 &amp;#8211; Mother\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-05-09T14:46:54+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As today is Mother\u2019s Day in many countries around the world, though not here in the UK, we are looking at the origins of the word mother.\n\n\n\nMother comes from the Middle English moder [\u02c8mo\u02d0d\u0259r\/\u02c8mo\u02d0\u00f0\u0259r], from the Old English m\u014ddor [\u02c8mo\u02d0.dor], from the...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6201\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1159-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.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\/mother.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1159-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/mother.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"mother.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As today is Mother\u2019s Day in many countries around the world, though not here in the UK, we are looking at the origins of the word mother. Mother comes from the Middle English moder [\u02c8mo\u02d0d\u0259r\/\u02c8mo\u02d0\u00f0\u0259r], from the Old English m\u014ddor [\u02c8mo\u02d0.dor], from the Proto-Germanic *m\u014dd\u0113r [\u02c8m\u0254\u02d0.\u00f0\u025b\u02d0r], from Proto-Indo-European *m\u00e9h\u2082t\u0113r [source]. Words for mother in most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,47,20,56,23,24,29,4,50,58,55,1,57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","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=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}