{"id":1222,"date":"2021-07-04T11:52:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T11:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2021-07-05T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T14:22:59","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-16-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 16 &#8211; Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 16 &amp;#8211; Book\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-07-04T11:52:37+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word book [b\u028ak].\n\n\n\nDefinition\n- a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers\n- a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format  [sourc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8550\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1222-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.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\/book2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1222-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"book2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>book<\/strong> [b\u028ak].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/stewart\/99129170\/in\/photolist-9L4DC-2h3GUY-9uPVG8-6cs5u-48Wfpp-hW9GkX-rZnCt-bpxvhG-5Emj44-4KHMs1-akFR3u-923VJQ-qU7b2-8BrSWn-CLtJBZ-aVn2eF-vTeAgS-HRXqoR-4ZUyno-bUYNFv-fiXcBj-BjymTh-vbSDmY-7PBmY8-dY2Z8D-bVpm9T-82iqbY-MkfZ8s-MnvcBz-rKqp8H-ci8s7s-LYVZXx-L3MAF-96kTx-dQp8kV-9r9hTB-4nj6YZ-6EVqAB-8Fxgv3-82ipB5-Qjyo6d-MubCPi-6tQvry-akFR6d-fgPTrW-dQuHnG-dQp8kv-M3hDKL-LxovKJ-5CNcg\" title=\"Library\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/36\/99129170_7d542023a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Library\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers<br \/>\n&#8211; a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format  [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/book\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>booke<\/em> [bo\u02d0k] (book), from the Old English <em>b\u014dc<\/em> [bo\u02d0k] (book, writing. document), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*b\u014dks<\/em> [b\u0254\u02d0ks] (letter, written message, inscriptions carved into a flat object pressed together) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/book#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Middle English another word for book was <strong>livret<\/strong>, from the Old French <em>livret<\/em> (book, booklet) from <em>livre<\/em> (book), from the Latin <em>liber<\/em> (book, the inner bark of a tree, paper, parchment), from the PIE <em>*lewb\u02b0-<\/em> (to peel, cut off, harm).<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same root include <strong>leaf<\/strong>, <strong>lobby<\/strong>, <strong>lodge<\/strong>, <strong>libel<\/strong>, <strong>library<\/strong>, which in Middle and Old English was <em>b\u014dch\u016bs<\/em> [\u02c8bo\u02d0k\u02cchu\u02d0s] or \u201cbookhouse\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/library\">source<\/a>] or <em>b\u014dchord<\/em> (\u201cbookhoard\u201d) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/bookhoard\">source<\/a>]. Incidentally, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=511\">post on the Omniglot blog<\/a> about words for library in various languages.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/IZ5Z5F-0Vjk\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IZ5Z5F-0Vjk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/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, and other language-related topics, 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 16 &amp;#8211; Book\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-07-04T11:52:37+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word book [b\u028ak].\n\n\n\nDefinition\n- a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers\n- a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format  [sourc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8551\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1222-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.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\/book2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1222-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/book2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"book2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word book [b\u028ak]. Definition &#8211; a handwritten or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers &#8211; a work of fiction or nonfiction in an electronic format [source] It comes from the Middle English word booke [bo\u02d0k] (book), 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":[98,20,56,4,50,58,55,1,57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-english","category-etymology","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\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}