{"id":1243,"date":"2021-07-17T17:38:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2021-07-17T20:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:18:23","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-18-parnips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1243","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 18 &#8211; Parnips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 18 &amp;#8211; Parnips\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-07-17T17:38:50+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word parsnip [\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0.sn\u026ap\/\u02c8p\u0251\u0279.sn\u026ap].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \tA plant (Pastinaca sativa) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.\n \tThe root of this plant.\n\nIt comes from the M...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/parsnip2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3751\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1243-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/parsnip2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/parsnip2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/parsnip2.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\/parsnip2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1243-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/parsnip2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"parsnip2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>parsnip<\/strong> [\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0.sn\u026ap\/\u02c8p\u0251\u0279.sn\u026ap].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pinadd\/328054579\/in\/photolist-uZncr-mv3gB-632kDB-5k8egE-b1ZgTr-crWn43-vq3t6-8o7MF8-t99vN-5w6XWk-9FkcNV-95i9Zp-9PutMQ-a2WWSp-7mhx2q-7WS3Ec-8WqeDs-49YvwK-4a3BQy-snC81-7Ns7iP-eejqGy-7dk6Qu-sPbLY-5VVAq2-cTmTvA-8pYfH9-6TRPG3-bFExsD-5Nf2Bk-7DNJqF-6K7tqR-4r7xib-tFFCQ-xZebJ-586KfK-bNf2di-7rChPs-4CsYpE-4G3WGj-4Nrymy-aFMbxc-h4iK7-bH9Ssz-6RxiZQ-G3XVGF-4wsezN-636Fms-7ydVKt-FPbVk\" title=\"Parsnips\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/134\/328054579_ace83960a6_z.jpg\" alt=\"Parsnips\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A plant (<em>Pastinaca sativa<\/em>) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root.<\/li>\n<li>The root of this plant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>passenep<\/em> a version of the Old French word <em>pasnaie<\/em>, with influence from the Middle English word <em>nepe<\/em> [ne\u02d0p] (turnip), from the Latin <em>pastin\u0101ca<\/em> [pas.ti\u02c8na\u02d0.ka] (parsnip, carrot, stringray) from  <em>pastinum<\/em> [\u02c8pas.ti.num] (two-pronged fork\/dibble), which is of unknown orgin [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/parsnip\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words for parsnip are similiar in quite a few other languages, including <strong>pastinaca<\/strong> in Italian, <strong>pastinaak<\/strong> in Dutch and <strong>panais<\/strong> in French.<\/p>\n<p>One exception is Spanish, in which parsnip is <strong>chiriv\u00eda<\/strong> [t\u0361\u0283i.\u027ei\u02c8\u03b2\u031ei.a], from alcaravea [al.ka.\u027ea\u02c8\u03b2\u031ee.a] (caraway), from the Arabic \u0643\u064e\u0631\u064e\u0627\u0648\u0650\u064a\u064e\u0627\u200e (kar\u0101wiy\u0101, caraway) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/chiriv%C3%ADa#Spanish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>This adventure was inspired by a friend who sent me a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/sillywelsh.htm#welsh\">collection of \u2018useful\u2019 phrases<\/a> from the Welsh course on Duolingo concerning Owen and his parsnips.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/oJDB9X-D6iY\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oJDB9X-D6iY\" 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, 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 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download=\"parsnip2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word parsnip [\u02c8p\u0251\u02d0.sn\u026ap\/\u02c8p\u0251\u0279.sn\u026ap]. Definition: A plant (Pastinaca sativa) in the parsley family, native to Eurasia, cultivated for its long, white, edible, fleshy root. The root of this plant. It comes from the Middle English word passenep a version of the Old French word pasnaie, with influence from the Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,60,47,20,56,23,12,4,50,58,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-arabic-","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-italian","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}