{"id":1353,"date":"2016-09-24T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2016-09-24T20:54:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T01:54:35","slug":"the-etymological-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=1353","title":{"rendered":"Lost in the Etymological Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Etymology is a tricky business. Here’s a simple proof for doubting students:<\/p>\n

English cognates are routinely formed from the present and participial stems of Latin verbs, often from both stems of the same verb. The present and participial stems of dēfundō<\/em>, dēfundere<\/em>, dēfūdī<\/em>, dēfūsum<\/em> are (obviously) ‘defund-‘ and ‘defus-‘. There are English verbs ‘defund’ and ‘defuse’. But neither is a cognate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Etymology is a tricky business. Here’s a simple proof for doubting students: English cognates are routinely formed from the present and participial stems of Latin verbs, often from both stems of the same verb. The present and participial stems of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1358,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}