{"id":1199,"date":"2021-06-20T13:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T13:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2021-06-20T14:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T14:02:44","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-14-exclamation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 14 &#8211; Exclamation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 14 &amp;#8211; Exclamation!\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-06-20T13:57:12+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word exclamation [\u02cc\u025bk skl\u0259\u02c8me\u026a \u0283\u0259n], a interjectory word that cries out and calls loudly, that expresses outcry or emphasis.\n\n\n\nIt comes from the Middle French word exclamation (exclamation), from the Latin excl\u0101m\u0101ti\u014d (exc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/exclamation2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7454\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1199-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/exclamation2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/exclamation2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/exclamation2.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\/exclamation2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1199-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/exclamation2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"exclamation2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>exclamation<\/strong> [\u02cc\u025bk skl\u0259\u02c8me\u026a \u0283\u0259n], a interjectory word that cries out and calls loudly, that expresses outcry or emphasis.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/exclamation.gif\" alt=\"Exclamation marks in various alphabets\" width=\"477\" height=\"176\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle French word <em>exclamation<\/em> (exclamation), from the Latin <em>excl\u0101m\u0101ti\u014d<\/em> (exclamation), from <em>ex-<\/em> (out) and <em>cl\u0101m\u0101re<\/em>, from <em>cl\u0101m\u014d<\/em> (I cry out, clamor, shout, yell, exclaim), from the Proto-Italic <em>*kl\u0101m\u0101\u014d<\/em>, from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*kelh\u2081-<\/em> (to call, cry, summon) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/exclamation\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some English words from the same root include: <strong>acclaim<\/strong>, <strong>claim<\/strong>, <strong>clamour<\/strong>, <strong>council<\/strong>, <strong>declaim<\/strong>, <strong>proclaim<\/strong> and <strong>reclaim<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*kelh%E2%82%81-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_8X-YIiF-PU\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_8X-YIiF-PU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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It comes from the Middle French word exclamation (exclamation), from the Latin excl\u0101m\u0101ti\u014d (exclamation), from ex- (out) and cl\u0101m\u0101re, from cl\u0101m\u014d (I cry out, clamor, shout, yell, exclaim), from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,20,56,23,4,1,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-podcast","category-proto-indo-european"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","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=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}