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Mar. 21st, 2005 08:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radegundI've been very quiet here of late. Horribly busy, is mainly why, and also feeling a bit crap (the I Don't Deserve To Post To Livejournal Because I Haven't Finished A Novel Or Taken Out The Compost flavour). But this is me snapping out of it. I think.
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Yeah, spring. That was nice. Pissed rain all day today, of course. Ah well.
I was thinking about "spring" and "earrach" and "Frühling" and "printemps" and "primavera", and wondering why they aren't more alike. The only ones that have anything at all in common are the French and Italian, and even they are quite different. I'd love to know where "earrach" comes from - is it related to something Scandinavian, does anyone know? What's the Latin for spring? The Greek? Is there just something I'm missing?
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Also on the word front, last week's scholarly nerd points were spent being amused that Middle Irish had the same word (cana, cano) for "whelp" and "minor poet".
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Also on the scholarly nerd front, I applied for my own job last week. (Long story. Briefly, I've been managing my office in an acting capacity for almost two years, and now they're formalising it. With lashings of academic politics, needless to say, which is always ... um ... nice.) The interview is on Thursday. Wish me luck, if you're so inclined...
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Meanwhile, the explosive nappy saga just ran and ran (ha ha). Between one thing and another, we were seen by a total of three GPs and one paediatrician, all of whom said, in various ways, "he's clearly thriving, so this is not a bug - it's just a thing some kids get - he'll grow out of it". The sample we sent to the lab also came back clear of everything they thought to look for. He has what's known as "toddler's diarrhoea", which is pretty much an IDK syndrome,* from what I can find out. Not worrying, anyway, which is the main thing.
So the paediatrician gave us what he called the "paper blessing", and the crèche took Oisín back, and they've stopped ringing me every time he poos. And I know they have to be cautious (apparently diarrhoea can rip through a roomful of babies in half a day...), but it is galling that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
niallm and I had to take about six days' annual leave between us, and spend the guts of €300, to be told exactly what the very first GP who saw Oisín said.
Still, all's well that ... oh whatever.
* I Don't Know [but I'm the medical profession so I can't admit it]
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In cheerier news, and speaking ofniallm, it's a book! The coolness.
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Here ends my candidate for Most Rambling Post Ever. Toodle-pip.
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Yeah, spring. That was nice. Pissed rain all day today, of course. Ah well.
I was thinking about "spring" and "earrach" and "Frühling" and "printemps" and "primavera", and wondering why they aren't more alike. The only ones that have anything at all in common are the French and Italian, and even they are quite different. I'd love to know where "earrach" comes from - is it related to something Scandinavian, does anyone know? What's the Latin for spring? The Greek? Is there just something I'm missing?
***
Also on the word front, last week's scholarly nerd points were spent being amused that Middle Irish had the same word (cana, cano) for "whelp" and "minor poet".
***
Also on the scholarly nerd front, I applied for my own job last week. (Long story. Briefly, I've been managing my office in an acting capacity for almost two years, and now they're formalising it. With lashings of academic politics, needless to say, which is always ... um ... nice.) The interview is on Thursday. Wish me luck, if you're so inclined...
***
Meanwhile, the explosive nappy saga just ran and ran (ha ha). Between one thing and another, we were seen by a total of three GPs and one paediatrician, all of whom said, in various ways, "he's clearly thriving, so this is not a bug - it's just a thing some kids get - he'll grow out of it". The sample we sent to the lab also came back clear of everything they thought to look for. He has what's known as "toddler's diarrhoea", which is pretty much an IDK syndrome,* from what I can find out. Not worrying, anyway, which is the main thing.
So the paediatrician gave us what he called the "paper blessing", and the crèche took Oisín back, and they've stopped ringing me every time he poos. And I know they have to be cautious (apparently diarrhoea can rip through a roomful of babies in half a day...), but it is galling that
niallm and I had to take about six days' annual leave between us, and spend the guts of €300, to be told exactly what the very first GP who saw Oisín said.Still, all's well that ... oh whatever.
* I Don't Know [but I'm the medical profession so I can't admit it]
***
In cheerier news, and speaking of
niallm, it's a book! The coolness.***
Here ends my candidate for Most Rambling Post Ever. Toodle-pip.
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IDK
Date: 2005-03-21 09:10 pm (UTC)Just had nasty sisterly phonecall; posted details to
Re: IDK
Date: 2005-03-21 09:20 pm (UTC)Re: IDK
Date: 2005-03-21 09:54 pm (UTC)Re: IDK
Date: 2005-03-21 10:04 pm (UTC)As it's now officially Past My Bedtime, I'm going to exercise extreme self-control and go to bed. Talk to you soon :-)
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Date: 2005-03-21 09:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-21 09:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-21 09:47 pm (UTC)In other news, good luck for Thursday and congrats to niallm!!!!!!
on seasons
Date: 2005-03-22 09:08 pm (UTC)As for Greek, or Ancient at least, Woodhouse seems to offer ἔαρ (eär), but I seem to remember that there must be another word for that, and I am embarassed to admit that my knowledge of Greek vocabulary is really spotty, being as it is barely "Hansen and Quinn plus." All of which just goes to say, I have a better sense of seasons in Latin than I do in Greek, and any advice in this matter, when you can get to it, would be much appreciated.
I hope your interview went well today!
Re: on seasons
Date: 2005-03-24 11:25 pm (UTC)(You notice how I'm too lazy to look any of this shit up myself...)
etymology
Date: 2005-03-22 10:39 am (UTC)And primavera means "first spring":
The German comes from early (same link as the English).
I got contradictory results for Irish.
This page didn't help at all, but has the phrase "The time has come for us to grasp the etymology nettle by the glottals."
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Date: 2005-03-22 11:33 am (UTC)