{"id":10884,"date":"2015-01-28T11:28:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10884"},"modified":"2015-01-28T11:28:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T11:28:26","slug":"zzenstily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10884","title":{"rendered":"Z\u017een\u0161til\u00fd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the Czech word <strong>z\u017een\u0161til\u00fd<\/strong> yesterday among translations of soft and the pile up of consonants got me wondering whether it was a real word or a typo. I discovered that it is a real word and means: soft, epicene, girly-girly, namby-pamby, nance, effeminate, effeminize, emasculate, pansy, soft, softish, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, sissified [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slovnik.cz\/\">source<\/a>]. <\/p>\n<p>Related words include: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; z\u017een\u0161tilec = effeminize<br \/>\n&#8211; z\u017een\u0161tilost = effeminacy, unmanliness, womanishness<br \/>\n&#8211; z\u017een\u0161tit = to womanize<\/p>\n<p>These words often have negative connotations in English. Do they have similar connotations in Czech and other languages? Are there any languages in which such words have positive connotations?<\/p>\n<p>Other Czech words for soft include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; poddajn\u00fd = soft, flexible, pliant, docile<br \/>\n&#8211; pozvoln\u00fd = soft, gentle, gradual, insidious<br \/>\n&#8211; jemn\u00fd = soft, bland, delicate, elegant, pigeon-hearted, sheer, silken, tender, fine, gentle, mild, milky<br \/>\n&#8211; m\u011bkk\u00fd = soft, compliant, crumbly, downy, pulpy, smooth, tender, flabby, flaccid, meek, mild<br \/>\n&#8211; slab\u00fd = soft, weak, bloodless, complaisant, effete, washy, weak, weakly, shallow, small<br \/>\n&#8211; m\u00edrn\u00fd = soft,  tranquil,  balmy,  clement,  pacific,  peaceable,  peaceful,  reasonable,  restful,  gentle,  lenient,  meek,  mild<br \/>\n&#8211; vl\u00e1cn\u00fd = soft, plastic, pliant, supple<br \/>\n&#8211; n\u011b\u017en\u00fd = soft, subtle, pigeon-hearted, silky, sweet, tender, affectionate, caressing, delicate, fond, gentle, milky<br \/>\n&#8211; nezpevn\u011bn\u00fd = soft, unconsolidated, unpaved, washy<br \/>\n&#8211; hebk\u00fd = soft, smooth, downy, velvety, fleecy<\/p>\n<p>What I was looking for was soft as in not hard (of material), so I think the first one, <em>poddajn\u00fd<\/em>, is probably the one I want, or maybe <em>m\u011bkk\u00fd<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the Czech word z\u017een\u0161til\u00fd yesterday among translations of soft and the pile up of consonants got me wondering whether it was a real word or a typo. I discovered that it is a real word and means: soft, epicene, girly-girly, namby-pamby, nance, effeminate, effeminize, emasculate, pansy, soft, softish, unmanly, womanish, womanlike, sissified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884","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=10884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}