{"id":9126,"date":"2005-06-21T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-20T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/21\/alternative-etymology-of-the-word-wise\/"},"modified":"2005-06-21T01:54:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-20T22:54:22","slug":"alternative-etymology-of-the-word-wise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/21\/alternative-etymology-of-the-word-wise\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative etymology of the word ‘wise’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I had a revelation recently about etymology of the word ‘wise’. It came to me when I was reading and thinknig about different stages in child’s life. There is one particular period when a child asks one billion questions per second. ‘How does fridge work?’, ‘When did you and mama meet?’, ‘Why is the sky blue?’, etc. In Russian parenting books, this period is sometimes called ‘a why’s age’ (‘\u00d0\u00bf\u00d0\u00be\u00d1\u2021\u00d0\u00b5\u00d0\u00bc\u00d1\u0192\u00d1\u2021\u00d0\u00ba\u00d0\u00b8’), meaning an age where a child asks a lot of ‘Why?’ questions.<\/p>\n

And than it hit me – why’s age. It sounds a lot like ‘wise’. And it can be connected too – asking lots of questions can make one wise.<\/p>\n

I thought that I’ve discovered the etymology of ‘wise’ on my own, without any references. But when I decided to verify that it was indeed so, I found out that I was wrong. Online Etymology Dictionary<\/a> has this entry for ‘wise’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I like mine better anyway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I had a revelation recently about etymology of the word ‘wise’. It came to me when I was reading and thinknig about different stages in child’s life. There is one particular period when a child asks one billion questions per second. ‘How does fridge work?’, ‘When did you and mama meet?’, ‘Why is the sky … Continue reading Alternative etymology of the word ‘wise’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,2420,2416],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-expressions","tag-parenting","tag-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27033,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/01\/5-whys\/","url_meta":{"origin":9126,"position":0},"title":"5 Why’s","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is something new I learned today. \u00a0While reading the blog post on \"Why You Need a Postmortem Process\" over sysadvent (yes, it's an advent calendar for system administrators, and it just started this year's run), \u00a0I stumbled upon the 5 Whys Wikipedia page: 5 Whys is an iterative interrogative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/BJlV49RDlLE\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":16566,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/24\/an-extremely-wise-manager-once-told-me-people-do\/","url_meta":{"origin":9126,"position":1},"title":"An extremely wise manager once told me, people do …","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 24, 2012","format":"quote","excerpt":"An extremely wise manager once told me, people do not quit their jobs, they fire their bad managers. codepunk","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15751,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/20\/parenting-a-terminally-ill-child\/","url_meta":{"origin":9126,"position":2},"title":"Parenting a terminally ill child","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"New York Times runs a story by a mother who is parenting a terminally ill child. 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