{"id":3570,"date":"2024-09-28T15:11:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T15:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2024-09-28T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T16:17:18","slug":"celtic-pathways-jeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3570","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Pathways &#8211; Jeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Celtic Pathways &amp;#8211; Jeans\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-09-28T15:11:32+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M03S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"In this episode we discover the possible Celtic roots of the word jeans, and also the place names Genoa and Geneva.\n\n\n\nJeans are trousers made from denim cotton, traditionally dyed dark blue, and also known as blue jeans. The word jeans is an abbrevi...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.2\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9411\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3570-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.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\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3570-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"jeans.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we discover the possible Celtic roots of the word <strong>jeans<\/strong>, and also the place names <strong>Genoa<\/strong> and <strong>Geneva<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/russ2020\/16739377478\/in\/photolist-rvcFJw-734gcT-99kG9r-22BxJQ-47WRPT-qLMY6i-4ofaBw-75Z1Xz-bC8sbt-734eec-7342Jn-734kDM-9aqaNM-Zf6ojF-738eHy-rvdPKb-c3VGB-bKuGLD-75YQqk-bKuJyX-734pb8-3EhmmP-9zvdEx-aLoUu6-c3ZrQQ-738cQ5-aq3tgx-bu95wb-fG93QV-aq67ZG-c3ZL7U-5DBkD-c3ZrTj-734aBc-aEidc6-738jeW-FZe9FV-734p7F-bwA2gj-6uLupe-UjKL-bKuJN6-bwzYBw-87nPiu-iPE8m5-xSZ7EJ-c3ZtoL-vxnFsD-3bSg6e-c3ZFN3\" title=\"Boots and Jeans\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8717\/16739377478_0f0c900cae_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"Boots and Jeans\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeans<\/strong> are trousers made from denim cotton, traditionally dyed dark blue, and also known as <strong>blue jeans<\/strong>. The word <strong>jeans<\/strong> is an abbreviation of <strong>jean fustian<\/strong>, from Middle English <em>Gene<\/em> (Genoa, Genovese) and <em>fustian<\/em> (a strong cotton fabric) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jeans#English\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p><em>Gene<\/em> comes from Latin <em>Genua<\/em> (Genoa), which like <strong>Geneva<\/strong>, possibly comes from the Proto-Celtic <em>*genw\u0101<\/em> ([river] bend) from PIE <em>*\u01f5\u00e9nw-eh\u2082<\/em>, from <em>*\u01f5\u00f3nu<\/em> (knee), which is also the root of the Proto-Celtic word <em>*gl\u016bnos<\/em> (knee) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/%C7%B5%C3%B3nu\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Related words in the modern Celtic languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>gl\u00fain<\/strong> [\u0261l\u032a\u02e0u\u02d0n\u02b2] = knee, generation, step, node in Irish<\/li>\n<li><strong>gl\u00f9in<\/strong> [\u0261l\u032a\u02e0u\u02d0n\u032a\u02b2] = knee, generation, lap in Scottish Gaelic<\/li>\n<li><strong>glioon<\/strong> [\u0261l\u02b2u\u02d0n\u02b2] = joint, knee in Manx<\/li>\n<li><strong>glin<\/strong> [\u0261li\u02d0n] = knee in Welsh<\/li>\n<li><strong>glin<\/strong> [\u0261li\u02d0n] = knee in Cornish<\/li>\n<li><strong>glin<\/strong> [\u0261l\u0129\u02d0n] = knee in Breton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other words from the same PIE roots include <strong>genuflect<\/strong> (to bend the knee, grovel) and <strong>knee<\/strong> in English; <strong>genou<\/strong> (knee) in French; <strong>knie<\/strong> (knee) in Dutch and Afrikaans; <strong>gju<\/strong> [\u025fu\/\u0261j\u0169\u02d0] (knee) in Albanian, and <strong>\u03b3\u03cc\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0263\u0254nat\u0254] (knee) in Greek [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/%C7%B5%C3%B3nu\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the <strong>k<\/strong> in <strong>knee<\/strong> was pronounced in Middle Engish <em>kne<\/em> [kne\u02d0] and Old English <em>cn\u0113ow<\/em> [kne\u035co\u02d0w]  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kne#Middle_English\">source<\/a>], and also in Early Modern English until about the 16th or 17th century, when it quietly disappeared in speech [<a href=\"https:\/\/ell.stackexchange.com\/questions\/151054\/why-is-the-k-silent-in-know-and-knotty-etc\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>See the Celtiadur post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/12\/19\/knees\/\">Knees<\/a> for more details of words for <strong>knee<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages. 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The word jeans is an abbrevi...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.2\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9412\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3570-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.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\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3570-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/celticpathways\/jeans.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"jeans.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode we discover the possible Celtic roots of the word jeans, and also the place names Genoa and Geneva. Jeans are trousers made from denim cotton, traditionally dyed dark blue, and also known as blue jeans. The word jeans is an abbreviation of jean fustian, from Middle English Gene (Genoa, Genovese) and fustian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,126,38,122,37,47,20,56,23,61,6,4,50,58,11,55,1,94,59,7],"tags":[139,90,164,163,162,9,15,88,8],"class_list":["post-3570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afrikaans","category-albanian-shqip","category-breton","category-celtic-pathways","category-cornish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-greek-","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-middle-english","category-music","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-podcast","category-proto-celtic","category-proto-indo-european","category-welsh","tag-celtic","tag-etymology","tag-geneva","tag-genoa","tag-jeans","tag-language","tag-music","tag-omniglot","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570","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=3570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3577,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3570\/revisions\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}