{"id":10093,"date":"2014-06-10T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10093"},"modified":"2014-06-10T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:54:20","slug":"stockungen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10093","title":{"rendered":"Stockungen"},"content":{"rendered":"

While listening to Deutschlandradio<\/a> this morning one word that kept on coming up and that I didn’t understand was Stockung<\/strong>. It appears mainly in traffic reports, so I assume it meant something like delays or traffic jams.<\/p>\n

According to Reverso<\/a>, Stockung<\/em> means:<\/p>\n

– interruption, hold-up; congestion, traffic jam, hold-up
\n– breakdown (in negotiations)
\n– slackening or dropping off (in trade\/business)
\n– break, lull (in speech); pause, hesitation
\n– thickening; curdling (of milk)<\/p>\n

Related expressions include:<\/p>\n

– Verkehrsstockung = traffic jam
\n– der Verkehr l\u00e4uft wieder ohne Stockungen = traffic is flowing smoothly again<\/p>\n

A related verb is stocken<\/em>, which means: to miss or skip a beat; to falter; to make no progress; to flag; to grind to a halt; to stagnate; to be held up or halted; to thicken; to curdle, to go sour; to become mildewed, to go mouldy\/moldy.<\/p>\n

Stockung<\/em> and Stocken<\/em> come from Stock<\/em><\/a> (stick), which comes from the Old High German stoc<\/em>, from the Proto-Germanic *Stukka<\/em> (floor, beam, tree stump), from the Proto-Indo-European *(s)teu-<\/em> (to push, stick, knock, beat), which is also the root of the English words stick and stock [source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n

What are traffic jams \/ hold-ups called in your country?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While listening to Deutschlandradio this morning one word that kept on coming up and that I didn’t understand was Stockung. It appears mainly in traffic reports, so I assume it meant something like delays or traffic jams. According to Reverso, Stockung means: – interruption, hold-up; congestion, traffic jam, hold-up – breakdown (in negotiations) – slackening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,116,10,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}