{"id":11369,"date":"2015-06-22T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:11:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T11:11:50","slug":"hmyz-and-hums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=11369","title":{"rendered":"Hmyz and Hums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/hmyz.gif\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"Hymz\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came across an interesting Czech word today &#8211; <strong>hmyz<\/strong>, which means &#8220;insect, ant, bug, creepy-crawly&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>It appears in my Czech phrasebook in the sentence, &#8220;<em>V na\u0161em pokoji je hmyz<\/em>&#8221; (There are insects in our room). <\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the sounds insects make, but there are other words for hum in Czech &#8211; <em>bzu\u010det, vr\u010det, hu\u010det<\/em> (verbs); <em>bzukot, \u0161um, hukot<\/em> (nouns).<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; hmyzo\u017eravec = insectivore<br \/>\n&#8211; hmyzo\u017erav\u00fd = insectivorous<br \/>\n&#8211; repelent proti hmyzu = insect repellent<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordbook.cz\/index.php\">Wordbook.cz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slovnik.cz\/\">Slovnik.cz<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/slovniky.lingea.cz\/Anglicko-cesky\">Slovniky.lingea.cz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an interesting Czech word today &#8211; hmyz, which means &#8220;insect, ant, bug, creepy-crawly&#8221;. It appears in my Czech phrasebook in the sentence, &#8220;V na\u0161em pokoji je hmyz&#8221; (There are insects in our room). It sounds like the sounds insects make, but there are other words for hum in Czech &#8211; bzu\u010det, vr\u010det, [&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-11369","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\/11369","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=11369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}