{"id":2490,"date":"2023-01-14T17:11:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T17:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2490"},"modified":"2023-01-14T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T18:17:24","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-obtuse-pronking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2490","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology &#8211; Obtuse Pronking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Obtuse Pronking\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-01-14T17:11:24+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this Adventure we are being indirect and circuitous and looking for an angle on the word obtuse.\n\n\n\nObtuse [\u0259b\u02c8tju\u02d0s] means:\n\n \tBlunt, pointed or acute in form\n \tMore than 90\u00b0 and less than 180\u00b0\n \tIntellectually dull or dim-witted\n \tDeadened, muff...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4461\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2490-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.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\/obtupronk.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2490-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"obtupronk.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this Adventure we are being indirect and circuitous and looking for an angle on the word <strong>obtuse<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/splat\/212978971\/in\/photolist-jPzee-fg7pC-dqKG5e-2icdEQd-bvycY7-bwgNrm-en7fDc-8ZoywA-bNiuba-e55fgN-2h4ESf1-bEpbbT-26jpUah-bEpb9H-mvtyqC-2hKqn47-24Ewv3y-fhaEAF-26jnsgY-YjJbnd-edHZST-bwgMom-uAhLQa-HL5irk-fptiAt-4U9Hwk-zD31-dqJXT4-edHZS2-5zipnt-eYVKiR-fmC2x8-bZgRPq-eZ8eSA-eZ8nEL-eYVZsv-bZgSwd-7G88cp-eYVWL4-bZgTf5-iH9ufq-eZ82Mo-EBSK4-eZ842q-nWBkXP-PsCgD-T3L1mh-eYVVjn-eYVB7a-4aCe3D\" title=\"Obtuse Climbing Angle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/63\/212978971_0a81b7ab0d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Obtuse Climbing Angle\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Obtuse<\/strong> [\u0259b\u02c8tju\u02d0s] means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Blunt, pointed or acute in form<\/li>\n<li>More than 90\u00b0 and less than 180\u00b0<\/li>\n<li>Intellectually dull or dim-witted<\/li>\n<li>Deadened, muffled or mutted (sound)<\/li>\n<li>Indirect or circuitous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Obtuse<\/strong>  comes from Middle French <em>obtus<\/em> (obtuse, boring, dull, lifeless), from the Latin <em>obt\u016bsus<\/em> (blunt, dull, obtuse), from <em>obtund\u014d<\/em> (to batter, beat, strike, blunt, dull), from <em>ob-<\/em> (against) and <em>tund\u014d<\/em> (to beat, strike, bruise, crush, pound), from PIE <em>*(s)tewd-<\/em> (to push, hit) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/obtuse#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>student<\/strong>, <strong>study<\/strong> and <strong>studio<\/strong> in English, and <strong>tundir<\/strong> (to shear, mow) in Spanish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-West_Germanic\/harjabergu\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Also from the same roots we get the word <strong>stot<\/strong>, which means a leap using all four legs at once. This is what springboks, Thomson\u2019s gazelles, pronghorns and other species do as a way to show predators that they would be difficult to catch (see below) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stotting\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94059982@N08\/16926938101\/in\/photolist-rMLYYn-nivqdn-2mGHjd1-niPZo7-bNNRbv-au17PW-pCuPMJ-91HjT4-91LoX7-91Lqgb-PugVwY-oLae77-pqyLzC-nky992-au19H7-dn99CR-HQofbB-2kY5nit-W8tyv9-JVDXx1-vE5i3W-2nUBWbT-Pjpbaq-2nFeCAn-2g9An84-2nzmfEa-2npCp8r-2n2HzTV-z7jbNd-2kqWjAx-2ngnW6L-h2AVDY-pEEtVJ-H21dEZ-H1UPmL-BhazK6-2X9fzk-H1YFwP-21CXyY5-ykdpg3-pEAhav-qPQgCu-2kWabLj-2n9UEcK-W8tgu5-2kW5wPE-rLM7zi-zQy9F-2kWeDLv-2kWeDJB\" title=\"Pronking\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7646\/16926938101_14b3d2489e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Pronking\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stotting<\/strong> is also known as <strong>pronking<\/strong> or <strong>pronging<\/strong>, which come from Afrikaans <strong>pronk<\/strong> (to show off, strut or prance), from Dutch <strong>pronken<\/strong> (to display, show off) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/pronk#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/kudAHkPJoyE\">video<\/a> I made of this information:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kudAHkPJoyE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Obtuse Pronking\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-01-14T17:11:24+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this Adventure we are being indirect and circuitous and looking for an angle on the word obtuse.\n\n\n\nObtuse [\u0259b\u02c8tju\u02d0s] means:\n\n \tBlunt, pointed or acute in form\n \tMore than 90\u00b0 and less than 180\u00b0\n \tIntellectually dull or dim-witted\n \tDeadened, muff...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4462\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2490-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.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\/obtupronk.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2490-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/obtupronk.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"obtupronk.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this Adventure we are being indirect and circuitous and looking for an angle on the word obtuse. Obtuse [\u0259b\u02c8tju\u02d0s] means: Blunt, pointed or acute in form More than 90\u00b0 and less than 180\u00b0 Intellectually dull or dim-witted Deadened, muffled or mutted (sound) Indirect or circuitous Obtuse comes from Middle French obtus (obtuse, boring, dull, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,42,47,20,56,4,50,140,1,59,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-in-etymology","category-afrikaans","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-french","category-podcast","category-proto-indo-european","category-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}