{"id":1467,"date":"2021-10-02T13:20:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1467"},"modified":"2021-10-29T19:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T19:55:08","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-28-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1467","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology 29 &#8211; Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology 29 &amp;#8211; Rain\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-10-02T13:20:42+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As quite a bit of wet stuff has been falling out of the sky this week, and it\u2019s raining as I write this, I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word rain [\u0279e\u026an].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \tcondensed water falling from a cloud\n \tany matter moving or fa...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6242\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1467-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.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\/rain2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1467-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"rain2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As quite a bit of wet stuff has been falling out of the sky this week, and it\u2019s raining as I write this, I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word <strong>rain<\/strong> [\u0279e\u026an].<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/various\/rain1.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of rain taken from my house\" width=\"630\" height=\"291\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Definition<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>condensed water falling from a cloud<\/li>\n<li>any matter moving or falling, usually through air<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/rain#English\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>reyn\/rein<\/em> [r\u025bi\u032fn\/re\u02d0n] (rain),  from the Old English <em>re\u0121n<\/em> [rejn] (rain), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*regn<\/em> [rejn] (rain), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*regn\u0105<\/em> (rain), possibly from the PIE <em>*Hre\u01f5-<\/em> (to flow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/rain#English\">source<\/a>], or from <em>*reg-<\/em> (to water, moisture, wetness) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/regn%C4%85\">source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Words for rain in other Germanic languages come from the same Proto-Germanic root, including <em>regen<\/em> [\u02c8re\u0263\u0259(n)] in Dutch, <strong>Regen<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0281e\u02d0.\u0261\u014b\u030d] in German, and <strong>regn<\/strong> in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic, with different pronunciations in each language [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/regn%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>irrigate<\/strong> comes from the same PIE root, via the Latin <em>irrigare<\/em> (to irrigate), from <em>irrig\u014d<\/em> (I water, irrigate, flood), from <em>in-<\/em> (after) and <em>rig\u014d<\/em> (I wet, moisten, water)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/irrigate\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SxVqOg6UzTw\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SxVqOg6UzTw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d9yrZ7HFoW8\">a song I wrote about rain<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d9yrZ7HFoW8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A slightly different version can be heard at:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/70708013&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; 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Rain\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-10-02T13:20:42+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"As quite a bit of wet stuff has been falling out of the sky this week, and it\u2019s raining as I write this, I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word rain [\u0279e\u026an].\n\n\n\nDefinition:\n\n \tcondensed water falling from a cloud\n \tany matter moving or fa...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6243\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1467-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.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\/rain2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1467-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/rain2.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"rain2.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>As quite a bit of wet stuff has been falling out of the sky this week, and it\u2019s raining as I write this, I thought I\u2019d look into the the origins of the word rain [\u0279e\u026an]. Definition: condensed water falling from a cloud any matter moving or falling, usually through air [source] It comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,31,47,20,56,95,24,29,4,58,84,55,1,57,59,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-faroese-foroyskt-mal","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-middle-english","category-norwegian-norsk","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467","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=1467"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1467\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}