{"id":3518,"date":"2024-08-24T20:31:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T20:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2024-08-24T21:27:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T21:27:41","slug":"adventures-in-etymology-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Etymology &#8211; Grass"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Adventures in Etymology &amp;#8211; Grass\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-08-24T20:31:52+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M25S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this Adventure in Etymology we find out whether the words grass, graze and green are connected.\n\n\n\nGrass [\u0261\u0279\u0251\u02d0s\/\u0261\u0279as\/\u0261\u0279\u0320\u00e6s] is:\n\n\nAny plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap a...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/grass.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.0\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6679\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3518-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/grass.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/grass.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/grass.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\/grass.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3518-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/etymology\/grass.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"grass.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this Adventure in Etymology we find out whether the words <strong>grass<\/strong>, <strong>graze<\/strong> and <strong>green<\/strong> are connected.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/30476247294\/in\/photolist-Nr5Jxy-6A3Cqa-YLg1bd-YLgra1-YSGH37-ZH6pZM-ZLZjJG-ZVgenE-21GNyh4-21JnbRX-21XPkYJ-22QNtUh-22ZKy7C-232j4M9-233pBWc-2368KW5-23aurEQ-AbY3PM-Axckre-CpTJLv-CK25VS-CK2bh3-D9w3ta-DiyV7B-DqiRi2-Dym5re-EDVc7L-EEvuGs-EEvuJw-EKQcqL-FUqcKR-FUqknK-FUqoNc-GWDzEa-H5noT2-HWEHmD-HWENic-J8he5X-JgwkQe-JgwsMk-L87SGj-Q9AzLi-QwWtSC-RR3zKt-YstWp3-YLgfZS-YLgnEq-YNSDKv-YTm7Nj-ZLggFq\" title=\"Gertie and Bertie\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5564\/30476247294_0804ab79f6_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Gertie and Bertie\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grass<\/strong> [\u0261\u0279\u0251\u02d0s\/\u0261\u0279as\/\u0261\u0279\u0320\u00e6s] is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Any plant of the family <em>Poaceae<\/em>, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Middle English <em>gras<\/em> [\u0261ras] (grass, herb, pasture, meadow, fodder), from Old English <em>gr\u00e6s<\/em> [\u0261r\u00e6s] (grass), from Proto-Germanic <em>*gras\u0105<\/em> [\u02c8\u0263r\u0251.s\u0251\u0303] (grass) from Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b0reh\u2081-<\/em> (to grow, become green) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/grass#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>grow<\/strong>, <strong>green<\/strong>, <strong>gray\/grey<\/strong>, <strong>graze<\/strong> and <strong>herb<\/strong> in English, <strong>groen<\/strong> (green) in Dutch, <strong>grasen<\/strong> (to graze) in German, and <strong>rohi<\/strong> (grass, medicine) in Estonian [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/g%CA%B0reh%E2%82%81-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, in British slang, a <strong>grass<\/strong> is an informer, police informer, or one who betrays a group (of criminals, etc) to the authorities. This is probably an abbreviation of <strong>grasshopper<\/strong> (police officer, informant), which is rhyming slang for <strong>copper<\/strong> (police officer) or <strong>shopper<\/strong> (informant).<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;d better not let the <strong>grass grow under our feet<\/strong> and <strong>kick this into the long grass<\/strong>, because the <strong>grass is always greener on the other side of the fence<\/strong> and if we listen carefully, we can <strong>hear the grass grow<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other grass-related idioms and expressions are available, and I wrote a song about the grass appearing greener called <strong>The Other Side<\/strong>. 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Grass [\u0261\u0279\u0251\u02d0s\/\u0261\u0279as\/\u0261\u0279\u0320\u00e6s] is: Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain. 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