The notion of around refers to the contour, the environment or the surroundings of something. That which occurs around a thing, therefore, takes place in its vicinity or surrounding it.
For example: “The investigators handle several hypotheses regarding the crime”, “Thousands of protesters marched around the Government Palace with banners demanding justice”, “Do not pay attention to what is happening around you: concentrate on what you are doing”.
Suppose that, surprisingly, the coach of a basketball team (básquetbol) submits his resignation and leaves his position. Faced with this situation, rumors begin to circulate in the media about the situation: they are versions or transcended that arise around the decision of the professional in question. A fight with the team captain, non-payment of salary, a better offer from another club and a health problem are some of the possible reasons for the resignation mentioned by journalists. See Abbreviation Finder for acronyms related to Around.
If a person enters a room and looks around, on the other hand, what he does is look at all angles. He doesn’t just look straight ahead or concentrate his gaze on one point: on the contrary, he looks at his surroundings.
The surrounding idea can also be understood regarding what is accessory or secondary. In a football game, the main thing is what happens on the field of play. But around this show, multiple events take place: the sale of shirts, the consumption of food and drinks, the songs and shouts of supporters, the work of journalists, etc.
Although the word around is still valid in our language, it is currently used mainly in literary and journalistic fields, since in everyday speech others are preferred, such as being around or even the expression in a circle: «We sit around the fire », «We made a fire and sat in a circle / around «.
Regarding the etymology of this term, we can start with around, which was formed by metathesis of “around”, inverting “derre” to turn it into “rede”. For its part, around is made up of the preposition of and the adverb redor, which derives from the Latin retro, which can be translated as “behind”.
The concept of metathesis refers to a figure of transformation that consists of changing the position of certain sounds within a given word, whether they attract or repel each other. When it comes to an exchange between two sounds, the phenomenon is called reciprocal metathesis: animalia became vermin. If only one sound changes place within the confines of the word, then one speaks of simple metathesis: integrate became deliver.
It can also happen that the sounds in question are next to each other; in this case, we find ourselves before a metathesis in contact, as happened with the term vidua to reach widow. If, on the other hand, the parts are separated, e gives a distance metathesis.
Although, as mentioned above, this term is not used in everyday speech, this does not mean that it does not find a little place at some point in people’s daily lives, beyond the pages of books and newspapers. So much so that if we refer to Christmas songs, we will find it in one of the best known of all time: «Silent Night». One of the verses of this Christmas carol, which was composed in German and later translated into our language, says “everything is sleeping around.”
