{"id":10614,"date":"2014-10-31T18:54:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2014-10-31T18:54:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T17:54:50","slug":"borborygmus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10614","title":{"rendered":"Borborygmus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a wonderful word today &#8211; <strong>borborygmus<\/strong> [b\u0254rb\u0259\u02c8r\u026a\u0261m\u0259s] (plural <strong>borborygmi<\/strong>) &#8211; which refers to a rumble or gurgle in the stomach. It comes from the 16th-century French word <em>borborygme<\/em>, via Latin from the Ancient Greek <em>\u03b2\u03bf\u03c1\u03b2\u03bf\u03c1\u03c5\u03b3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2<\/em> (borborygm\u00f3s), which was probably onomatopoetical [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stomach_rumble\">source<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/article\/index\/266749\/21-fancy-medical-terms-for-mundane-problems\">The Week<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Are there interesting words for this phenomenon in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a wonderful word today &#8211; borborygmus [b\u0254rb\u0259\u02c8r\u026a\u0261m\u0259s] (plural borborygmi) &#8211; which refers to a rumble or gurgle in the stomach. It comes from the 16th-century French word borborygme, via Latin from the Ancient Greek \u03b2\u03bf\u03c1\u03b2\u03bf\u03c1\u03c5\u03b3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2 (borborygm\u00f3s), which was probably onomatopoetical [source, via The Week]. Are there interesting words for this phenomenon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,118,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614","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=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}