{"id":1187,"date":"2021-06-06T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2021-06-16T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:42:19","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-12-paraphernalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 12 &#8211; Paraphernalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 12 &amp;#8211; Paraphernalia\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-06T14:20:53+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word paraphernalia [\u02ccp\u00e6\u0279\u0259f\u0259\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259\/\u02ccp\u025b\u0279\u0259f\u025a\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259].\n\n\nSome of my musical and juggling paraphernalia\n\nAccording to Dictionary.com, it refers to \u201cequipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular ac...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2044\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1187-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.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\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1187-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"paraphernalia2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>paraphernalia<\/strong> [\u02ccp\u00e6\u0279\u0259f\u0259\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259\/\u02ccp\u025b\u0279\u0259f\u025a\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/23543317149\/in\/album-72157671265431635\/\" title=\"My musical menagerie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/719\/23543317149_63445b0928_z.jpg\" alt=\"My musical menagerie\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<em>Some of my musical and juggling paraphernalia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/paraphernalia\">Dictionary.com<\/a>, it refers to \u201cequipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity\u201d, \u201cpersonal belongings\u201d, or \u201cthe personal articles, apart from dower, reserved by law to a married woman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Ancient Greek word <em>\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b1<\/em> (par\u00e1pherna), meaning &#8220;goods which a wife brings over and above her dowry\u201d, from <em>\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac<\/em> (par\u00e1 &#8211;  beside) and <em>\u03c6\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03ae<\/em> (phern\u1e17 &#8211; dowry). Apparently when dowries were paid, they became the husband\u2019s property, and anything else the wife brought to the marriage (her paraphernalia) remained in her possession [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/paraphernalia\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms include apparatus, accouterments, effects, equipment, furnishings, gear, possessions, stuff, tackle, things and trappings.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PChHJOd67gA\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PChHJOd67gA\" 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 12 &amp;#8211; Paraphernalia\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-06T14:20:53+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word paraphernalia [\u02ccp\u00e6\u0279\u0259f\u0259\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259\/\u02ccp\u025b\u0279\u0259f\u025a\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259].\n\n\nSome of my musical and juggling paraphernalia\n\nAccording to Dictionary.com, it refers to \u201cequipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular ac...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2045\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1187-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.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\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1187-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/paraphernalia2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"paraphernalia2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word paraphernalia [\u02ccp\u00e6\u0279\u0259f\u0259\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259\/\u02ccp\u025b\u0279\u0259f\u025a\u02c8ne\u026ali.\u0259]. Some of my musical and juggling paraphernalia According to Dictionary.com, it refers to \u201cequipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity\u201d, \u201cpersonal belongings\u201d, or \u201cthe personal articles, apart from dower, reserved by law to a married woman.\u201d It comes from the Ancient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,97,20,56,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-ancient-greek-","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","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=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1190,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}