{"id":2021,"date":"2017-05-22T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T21:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/?p=2021\/"},"modified":"2017-05-22T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T06:05:15","slug":"the-word-of-the-week-is-tulip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/the-word-of-the-week-is-tulip\/","title":{"rendered":"The word of the week is <i>tulip<\/i>."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>chasing jargon, while visiting the Netherlands\u00a0I was hunting flowers. The tulip fields were especially impressive in Noordoostpolster. On my trip, I learned that tulips originally come from Turkey; their name refers to a turban, likely because of the flower&#8217;s shape. From the Turkish word\u00a0<em>t\u00fclbent<\/em>, we derive the Dutch\u00a0<em>tulpe<\/em>, French\u00a0<em>tulipe<\/em>, Italian\u00a0<em>tulipano<\/em>, English\u00a0<em>tulip<\/em>\u00a0and Finnish\u00a0<em>tulppaani<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Names for many familiar flowers seem similar across many European languages. The\u00a0<em>rose<\/em>\u00a0is rooted in Greek\u00a0<em>rhodon<\/em>, which has generated Dutch\u00a0<em>roos<\/em>, English\u00a0<em>rose<\/em>, Swedish\u00a0<em>ros<\/em>, Russian\u00a0<em>roza<\/em>,<em>\u00a0<\/em>and many others. Also from the same word family is\u00a0<em>rhododendron<\/em>\u00a0(in Finnish\u00a0<em>alppiruusu\u00a0<\/em>\u201dalpine rose\u201d), a combination of the Greek word\u00a0<em>rhodon<\/em>\u00a0&#8216;rose&#8217; and\u00a0<em>dendron\u00a0<\/em>&#8216;tree&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Greek\u00a0<em>narkissos<\/em>\u00a0apparently initially referred to our\u00a0<em>iris\u00a0<\/em>or some other lily instead of our current\u00a0<em>narcissus<\/em>. The\u00a0<em>narko<\/em>-beginning suggests that the original flower had some kind of drug effect;\u00a0<em>narkos<\/em>\u00a0refers to numbness. The name of a spectacular\u00a0<em>gladiolus\u00a0<\/em>(in Finnish\u00a0<em>miekkalilja<\/em>\u00a0\u201dsword lily\u201d) comes from the Latin word, which means a small sword and has the same root as\u00a0<em>gladiator<\/em>\u00a0&#8220;swordsman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish name for violet is\u00a0<em>orvokki\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>orvonkukka\u00a0<\/em>(in English \u201dorphan flower\u201d).\u00a0In Finland, you can plant them in early spring; apparently hard conditions have made them tenacious survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In lieu of\u00a0chasing jargon, while visiting the Netherlands\u00a0I was hunting flowers. The tulip fields were especially impressive in Noordoostpolster. On my trip, I learned that tulips originally come from Turkey; their name refers to a turban, likely because of the flower&#8217;s shape. From the Turkish word\u00a0t\u00fclbent, we derive the Dutch\u00a0tulpe, French\u00a0tulipe, Italian\u00a0tulipano, English\u00a0tulip\u00a0and Finnish\u00a0tulppaani. Names [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-english-en","7":"category-wordoftheweek-en","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2027,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yksityinenkielitoimisto.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}