{"id":2131,"date":"2022-08-13T11:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2022-08-13T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T11:51:30","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-sneeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2131","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology &#8211; Sneeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Sneeze\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-08-13T11:04:47+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we\u2019re investigating the origins of the word sneeze.\n\n\n\nSneeze [sni\u02d0z] means:\n\n \tto emit air or breath suddenly, forcibly, and audibly through the nose and mouth by involuntary, spasmodic action.\n\nIt comes from the Middle English snesen [\u02c8sne\u02d0z\u0259...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8826\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2131-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.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\/sneeze.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2131-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sneeze.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we\u2019re investigating the origins of the word <strong>sneeze<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/sneeze.jpg\" alt=\"Sneeze\" width=\"624\" height=\"315\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sneeze<\/strong> [sni\u02d0z] means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to emit air or breath suddenly, forcibly, and audibly through the nose and mouth by involuntary, spasmodic action.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>snesen<\/em> [\u02c8sne\u02d0z\u0259n] (to sneeze), from <em>fnesen<\/em> [\u02c8fne\u02d0z\u0259n] (to sneeze) from the Old English <em>fn\u0113osan<\/em> [\u02c8fne\u035co\u02d0.z\u0251n] (to sneeze), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*fneusan\u0105<\/em> [\u0278neu\u032f.s\u0251.n\u0251\u0303] (to sneeze),  from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*pnew-<\/em> (to pant, breathe, snort, sneeze) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sneeze#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>A related word in Middle English was <em>fnesy<\/em> [fne\u02d0zi\u02d0] (having a tendency to wheeze or sneeze) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fnesy#Middle_English\">source<\/a>]. Other words that began with <strong>fn<\/strong> in Middle Engilsh included <em>fnoren<\/em> and <em>fnorten<\/em> which became <strong>snore<\/strong> and <strong>snort<\/strong> in Modern English.<\/p>\n<p>An old word for to sneeze in English was <strong>neeze<\/strong>, which is or was used in some dialects in the UK. It came from the Middle English <em>nesen<\/em> (to sneeze), from the Old English <em>*hn\u0113osan<\/em> (to sneeze), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*hneusan\u0105<\/em> (to sneeze), from the PIE <em>*(s)knus-<\/em> (to sneeze) and <em>*pnew-<\/em> (to pant, breathe) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/neeze#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the PIE root <em>*pnew-<\/em> include <strong>pneumatic<\/strong> and <strong>pneumonia<\/strong> in English, <strong>pneu<\/strong> (tyre\/tire) in French, and <strong>\u03c0\u03bd\u03ad\u03c9<\/strong> [\u02c8pne.o] (to blow) in Greek [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/pnew-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UreygRqA5og\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UreygRqA5og\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; 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Sneeze\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-08-13T11:04:47+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Today we\u2019re investigating the origins of the word sneeze.\n\n\n\nSneeze [sni\u02d0z] means:\n\n \tto emit air or breath suddenly, forcibly, and audibly through the nose and mouth by involuntary, spasmodic action.\n\nIt comes from the Middle English snesen [\u02c8sne\u02d0z\u0259...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8827\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2131-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.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\/sneeze.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2131-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/sneeze.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sneeze.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Today we\u2019re investigating the origins of the word sneeze. Sneeze [sni\u02d0z] means: to emit air or breath suddenly, forcibly, and audibly through the nose and mouth by involuntary, spasmodic action. It comes from the Middle English snesen [\u02c8sne\u02d0z\u0259n] (to sneeze), from fnesen [\u02c8fne\u02d0z\u0259n] (to sneeze) from the Old English fn\u0113osan [\u02c8fne\u035co\u02d0.z\u0251n] (to sneeze), from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,20,56,23,61,4,58,55,1,57,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek-","category-language","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\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}