{"id":1709,"date":"2022-01-29T14:15:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T14:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2022-01-29T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-29T15:00:38","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1709","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology &#8211; Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Champion\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-01-29T14:15:25+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we\u2019re looking into the origins of the word champion.\n\n\n\nA champion [\u02c8t\u0283\u00e6mpi\u0259n] is:\n\n \tAn ongoing winner in a game or contest.\n \tSomeone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.\n \tSomeone who fights for a cause or status.\n \tSom...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2626\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1709-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.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\/champion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1709-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"champion.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we\u2019re looking into the origins of the word <strong>champion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/gmanviz\/29238664293\/in\/photolist-LxHNeB-23idKE-5wjHR-75BBDW-EGKJ3-fYC4v-bSjGJF-59r9ke-7gqcA1-PUBGNU-8kn7GH-pXgt7u-7XDUGK-gP9VdZ-zSG1XH-2hoDrf3-pXqgHD-aMsEPe-5DqbPL-qcyanS-gP8Y5e-5QJ2jr-phR6Hu-8g5UTw-2M3JXN-pi5rpM-2itvJrE-YhwfM5-9DsdbT-pXhr7C-pXgvo3-qcybGA-CyRE9-8gD75R-6FarDU-cdoe4y-6RgkRr-84rCUm-2rQu1-pXqfHx-qeM2fC-4Miztr-gP8Shb-6JrShX-3Fj1s3-pXhqjL-pEbp8U-cBTu2L-pi5upV-2rQBU\" title=\"S Champion\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8384\/29238664293_44ce6f6cef_z.jpg\" alt=\"S Champion\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A <strong>champion<\/strong> [\u02c8t\u0283\u00e6mpi\u0259n] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An ongoing winner in a game or contest.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who fights for a cause or status.<\/li>\n<li>Someone who fights on another&#8217;s behalf.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>champioun<\/em> [t\u0283ampi\u02c8u\u02d0n] (martial artist, soldier, guardian, promoter, winner), from Old French <em>champion<\/em> [\u0283\u0251\u0303.pj\u0254\u0303] (champion), from Late Latin <em>campi\u014d(nem)<\/em> (champion, fighter), from Frankish <em>*kampij\u014d<\/em> (fighter), from Latin <em>campus<\/em> (flat level ground, plain, field), from Proto-West Germanic <em>*kampijan<\/em> (to battle, campaign), from <em>*kamp<\/em> (battle(field)) from PIE <em>*kh\u2082emp-<\/em> (to bend, curve)  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/champion#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same Latin root include <strong>campus<\/strong>, <strong>camp<\/strong>, <strong>campaign<\/strong> and <strong>champagne<\/strong> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*kh%E2%82%82em-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>cam\/kamm<\/strong> (crooked, bent, false), which found in all the modern Celtic languages, comes from the same PIE root via Proto-Celtic <em>*kambos<\/em> (twisted, crooked, bent) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/kambos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Celtic root include the obsolete English words <strong>kam<\/strong> (crooked, awry), from Welsh, and <strong>camous<\/strong> (flat\/crooked (nose), depressed) via Middle English, French, Latin and Gaulish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Celtic\/kambos\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>The French name <strong>Camus<\/strong> probably comes from the same Celtic root, as do the Scottish names <strong>Campbell<\/strong> (\u201ccrooked mouth\u201d) and <strong>Cameron<\/strong> (\u201ccrooked nose\u201d) via Scottish Gaelic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Caimbeul#Scottish_Gaelic\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/X79ypOntJ94\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X79ypOntJ94\" 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 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itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Champion\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-01-29T14:15:25+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we\u2019re looking into the origins of the word champion.\n\n\n\nA champion [\u02c8t\u0283\u00e6mpi\u0259n] is:\n\n \tAn ongoing winner in a game or contest.\n \tSomeone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest.\n \tSomeone who fights for a cause or status.\n \tSom...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2627\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1709-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.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\/champion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1709-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/champion.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"champion.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we\u2019re looking into the origins of the word champion. A champion [\u02c8t\u0283\u00e6mpi\u0259n] is: An ongoing winner in a game or contest. Someone who is chosen to represent a group of people in a contest. Someone who fights for a cause or status. Someone who fights on another&#8217;s behalf. It comes from Middle English champioun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,38,37,20,56,110,23,6,4,50,36,58,109,1,94,57,59,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-breton","category-cornish","category-english","category-etymology","category-frankish-frenkisk","category-french","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-middle-english","category-old-french-franceis","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}