568: adjourn and sojourn Jun 28, 2016

The Latin word 'jour' is useful to know for more than just being able to recognize what "soupe de jour' means The verb 'adjourn' comes from its Middle English word which means to ‘summon someone to appear on a particular day’ derived via the Old French 'ajorner', used in the phrase "a jorn (nome)" meaning ‘to an (appointed) day’. Because after the Norman invasion of England, (Norman) French and Picard were the languages for the law, many legal terms are from French or Latin roots. 'Sojourn' , which is not a legal term, comes through Middle English from the Old French, 'sojourner', based on Latin 'sub-' meaning 'during' or 'under' and the late Latin 'diurnum' for 'day'. If you remember from the post on Dec 6, 2015, 'jour-' and 'die', where we get 'journal' and 'diary' respectively comes from the same quite old word in Latin.'