{"id":70767,"date":"2025-08-29T07:54:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=70767"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:54:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T12:54:59","slug":"restitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=70767","title":{"rendered":"Restitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you're in museum administration, you will certainly know the meaning of \"restitution\".\u00a0 But what do you do with a headline like this?<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ena.et\/web\/eng\/w\/eng_7192892\">Ethiopian Heritage Authority Intensifies Push to Restitute Looted Artifacts<\/a>.\" ENA English.<\/p>\r\n<p>Ted McClure asks:<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Back-formation from \"restitution\"? Or verb origin of \"restitution\"? I would have thought the verb form was \"restore\". <!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>I leave it to Language Log readers to adjudicate.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><b>Selected readings<\/b><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to \" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=522\" rel=\"bookmark\">'Grammar vigilantes' brought to justice<\/a>\" (8\/22\/08) &#8212; \"ordered to pay restitution\")<\/li>\r\n<li>\"<a title=\"Permanent link to The snoot and the Geechee\" href=\"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=3195\" rel=\"bookmark\">The snoot and the Geechee<\/a>\" (6\/13\/11) &#8212; back-formation<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you're in museum administration, you will certainly know the meaning of \"restitution\".\u00a0 But what do you do with a headline like this? \"Ethiopian Heritage Authority Intensifies Push to Restitute Looted Artifacts.\" ENA English. Ted McClure asks: Back-formation from \"restitution\"? Or verb origin of \"restitution\"? I would have thought the verb form was \"restore\".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-morphology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70767"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70797,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70767\/revisions\/70797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}