{"id":10903,"date":"2015-01-31T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10903"},"modified":"2015-01-31T21:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T21:31:38","slug":"klunen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10903","title":{"rendered":"Klunen"},"content":{"rendered":"

I learnt an interesting word from a Dutch friend today – klunen<\/strong> – which refers to the action of walking on the ground in ice skates, something you might do while you’re skating along a frozen canal and come to a bridge you can’t go under, either because it’s too low, or the ice under it is too thin, so you have to walk around it. This is a wonderfully specific word and I can’t think of an equivalent in English, or any other language. Can you?<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of useage:<\/p>\n

Onder de brug lag geen ijs, dus we moesten erlangs klunen.
\nThere was no ice under the bridge, so we had to walk round it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It apparently comes from Frisian, and can also mean ‘to carry one’s canoe\/kayak around impassable obstacles in the water’. There’s is a word for that action in English: portage, which comes from the French porter<\/em> (to carry).<\/p>\n

Sources: Woorden.org<\/a> and Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I learnt an interesting word from a Dutch friend today – klunen – which refers to the action of walking on the ground in ice skates, something you might do while you’re skating along a frozen canal and come to a bridge you can’t go under, either because it’s too low, or the ice under […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903","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=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}