{"id":1357,"date":"2021-08-21T12:02:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2021-08-21T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T12:56:40","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-23-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 23 &#8211; Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 23 &amp;#8211; Hedge\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-21T12:02:22+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word hedge [h\u025bd\u0292].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \ta row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary\n\n[source]\n\nIt comes from the Middle English word hegge [h\u025bd\u0361\u0292] (hedge, bush, shrub), f...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9024\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1357-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.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\/hedge2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1357-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"hedge2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word <strong>hedge<\/strong> [h\u025bd\u0292].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/oatsy40\/15380757806\/in\/photolist-pr9prq-LgSFcw-49i5tE-s2SiXq-avbqj-p8ufGR-9vZorm-74QTZ3-74QUJ9-uZJ1G-uZJ1d-bhrs6-8czqL-wVESB2-2vEEe-uLVoFi-uZHZs-KTsjqA-hNe6ev-6WjuiR-aaw2ja-ejCFjR-conzRm-5eFFPR-wpj-uZHZV-27mtBwE-53XaKL-QfPw7-nNRSMZ-bgENtg-Dd62mN-yrkFWi-ZRTEJB-LHgY23-nETqvG-53STdi-9AXexk-soBsWv-bDQ1fK-sapyv9-6fRs6s-Lj8zmo-y64K43-Kq86R-pFtLXC-e43y6o-MTXok1-jTkN5x-txXHD\" title=\"Hedges\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3867\/15380757806_32dd69f03f_z.jpg\" alt=\"Hedges\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/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 row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/hedge\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English word <em>hegge<\/em> [h\u025bd\u0361\u0292] (hedge, bush, shrub), from the Old English <em>he\u010b\u0121<\/em> [hed\u0361\u0292] (fence), from the Proto-West-Germanic <em>*haggju<\/em> (hedge), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*hagj\u014d<\/em> [\u02c8x\u0251\u0263.j\u0254] (hedge), from the PIE <em>*kag\u02b0y\u00f3m<\/em> (enclosure, hedge) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hedge\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English words <strong>quay<\/strong> (as in a stone wharf) and <strong>haw<\/strong> (as in hawthorn, and an old word hedge) come from the same root, as does the Welsh word <strong>cae<\/strong> [ka\u02d0\u0268\u032f\/kai\u032f] (field, pitch), the Cornish word <strong>ke<\/strong> (hedge, fence), and the Breton word <strong>kae<\/strong> (hedge) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/kag%CA%B0y%C3%B3m\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Other words from the same root include the French <strong>haie<\/strong> [\u025b] (hedge, obstacle, hurdle, fence), which was borrowed from Frankish, and words for hedge in Germanic languages, including <strong>Hecke<\/strong> [\u02c8h\u025bk\u02b0\u0259] in German and <strong>heg<\/strong> [\u0266\u025bx] in Dutch [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic\/haggju\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TPLqX0GXG9Q\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TPLqX0GXG9Q\" 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<p>You can also listen to this podcast on: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\/id1432641094\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Education-Podcasts\/Radio-Omniglot-p1154145\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podchaser.com\/podcasts\/radio-omniglot-716327\">Podchaser<\/a>, <a 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itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 23 &amp;#8211; Hedge\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-21T12:02:22+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we are looking at the word hedge [h\u025bd\u0292].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \ta row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary\n\n[source]\n\nIt comes from the Middle English word hegge [h\u025bd\u0361\u0292] (hedge, bush, shrub), f...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/hedge2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9025\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1357-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" 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download=\"hedge2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we are looking at the word hedge [h\u025bd\u0292]. Definition: a row of bushes or small trees planted close together, especially when forming a fence or boundary [source] It comes from the Middle English word hegge [h\u025bd\u0361\u0292] (hedge, bush, shrub), from the Old English he\u010b\u0121 [hed\u0361\u0292] (fence), from the Proto-West-Germanic *haggju (hedge), from the Proto-Germanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,38,37,47,20,56,24,4,50,58,55,1,57,59,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-breton","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357","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=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}