{"id":12830,"date":"2016-09-06T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12830"},"modified":"2016-09-06T17:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T16:25:28","slug":"unions-and-alliances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12830","title":{"rendered":"Unions and alliances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/ria.ru\/radio\/\">Russian language radio<\/a> yesterday I finally worked out the meaning of a word that kept on coming up: <strong>\u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437<\/strong> (soyuz) [s\u0250j\u02c8\u0289s] , which is often used in the expressions <em>\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437<\/em> and <em>\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437<\/em> (European Union, EU). <\/p>\n<p>It was obvious once I realised they were talking about Europe, and the word Soyuz is familiar as the name of the Russian spacecraft, and of the Russian version of the USSR, though I didn&#8217;t recognize it at first with it&#8217;s Russian pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0421\u043e\u044e\u0437<\/strong> means union, alliance, league or conjunction, and appears in expressions like:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437\u043d\u0438\u043a = ally<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437\u043d\u044b\u0439 = allied; conjunctive<br \/>\n&#8211; \u043f\u0440\u043e\u0444\u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437 = trade \/ labor union<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0441\u0442\u0443\u0434\u0435\u043d\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437 = students&#8217; union<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0421\u043e\u044e\u0437 \u043a\u043e\u043c\u043f\u043e\u0437\u0438\u0442\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0432 = Musicians&#8217; Union<br \/>\n&#8211; \u0421\u043e\u044e\u0437 \u0421\u043e\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0421\u043e\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0441\u0442\u0438\u0447\u0435\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0445 \u0420\u0435\u0441\u043f\u0443\u0431\u043b\u0438\u043a (\u0421\u0421\u0421\u0420) = Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While listening to Russian language radio yesterday I finally worked out the meaning of a word that kept on coming up: \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437 (soyuz) [s\u0250j\u02c8\u0289s] , which is often used in the expressions \u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0435\u0439\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437 and \u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u0441\u043e\u044e\u0437 (European Union, EU). It was obvious once I realised they were talking about Europe, and the word Soyuz is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830","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=12830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}