{"id":10955,"date":"2015-02-18T13:39:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=10955"},"modified":"2015-02-18T13:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:39:23","slug":"schlittschuh-laufen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=10955","title":{"rendered":"Schlittschuh laufen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.cz\/de\">German version<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio.cz\/cz\">Radio Praha<\/a> this morning I heard them taking about <strong>Schlittschuh laufen<\/strong> and wondered what this might involve. I guessed that it had something to do with sliding &#8211; <em>Schlitt<\/em> has a deliciously slidey sound and feel to it &#8211; and might be skating or skiing. It is in fact (ice) skating: <em>Schlitten<\/em> = sledge, sled, or big car; <em>Schuh<\/em> = shoe, and <em>laufen<\/em> = to run, go, walk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Schlitten<\/strong> also appears in: <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Pferdeschlitten = (horse-drawn) sleigh<br \/>\n&#8211; Rodelschlitten = toboggan<br \/>\n&#8211; Rennschlitten = bobsleigh<br \/>\n&#8211; Schlitten fahren = to go tobogganing<br \/>\n&#8211; mit jdm Schlitten fahren = to have sb on the carpet, to bawl sb out<br \/>\n&#8211; Schreibmaschinenschlitten = carriage (in printer), cradle<br \/>\n&#8211; ein toller Schlitten = a fancy car<br \/>\n&#8211; Schlittenbahn = toboggan run<br \/>\n&#8211; Schlittenhund = sledge\/sled dog; husky<\/p>\n<p>Are there similarly slidey words for skating\/sledging\/skiing in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to the German version of Radio Praha this morning I heard them taking about Schlittschuh laufen and wondered what this might involve. I guessed that it had something to do with sliding &#8211; Schlitt has a deliciously slidey sound and feel to it &#8211; and might be skating or skiing. It is 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":[104,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955","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=10955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}