{"id":16326,"date":"2006-03-24T09:02:07","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/03\/24\/gunnysack.html"},"modified":"2006-03-24T09:02:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T17:02:07","slug":"gunnysack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/03\/24\/gunnysack\/","title":{"rendered":"gunnysack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've known the word \"gunnysack\" (for a burlap bag) since I was a kid, but it was only a few days ago that it finally occurred to me to wonder where the term came from.  Turns out it's from \"gunny,\" an Indo-Aryan-derived word referring to coarse fabric; there are related words in Hindi and Punjabi.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, I think \"gunny\" is a fabric made from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jute\">jute<\/a> (the plant fiber, not the Germanic people). I've know the word \"jute\" since I was a kid, too, but I never had a clear idea of what it was or what it was used for 'til I read that Wikipedia article recently.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve known the word &#8220;gunnysack&#8221; (for a burlap bag) since I was a kid, but it was only a few days ago that it finally occurred to me to wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}