{"id":14553,"date":"2017-09-27T12:19:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14553"},"modified":"2017-09-27T12:19:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:19:56","slug":"a-telling-chat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14553","title":{"rendered":"A Telling Chat"},"content":{"rendered":"

In interesting word I learnt recently in Icelandic is spjall<\/strong> [\u02c8spjatl\u0325], which means chat, converstation, talk or gossip. <\/p>\n

It comes from the Old Norse spjall<\/em> [\u02c8spj\u0251l\u02d0] (saying, tale, words, tales, tidings); from Proto-Germanic *spell\u0105<\/em> (news, message, tale, story), from the Proto-Indo-European *spel-<\/em> (to tell).<\/p>\n

A related word is spjalla<\/strong>, which means ‘to converse, to chat’. You could use it like this, I think,<\/p>\n

– \u00c9g er a\u00f0 spjalla \u00e1 \u00edslensku = I am chatting in Icelandic.<\/p>\n

The Proto-Indo-European *spel-<\/em> is also the root of the English word spell<\/strong>, the German -spiel<\/em> in Beispiel<\/em> (example – literally “by talk”) There were similar words in Old English: b\u012bspel<\/em> (proverb, pattern, example), and Scots: byspel<\/em> (byword, rarety, outcast).<\/p>\n

The German word spielen<\/em> comes from a different root: the Proto-Germanic *spil\u014dn\u0105<\/em> (to play, to dance, to move), from *spil\u0105<\/em> (game, play, dance).<\/p>\n

Icelandic words with related meanings include:<\/p>\n

– tal<\/strong> = speech, conversation
\n– tala<\/strong> = to talk, to speak
\n– talm\u00e1l<\/strong> = spoken language
\n– talsh\u00e1ttur<\/strong> = phrase, idiom
\n– talsma\u00f0ur<\/strong> = advocte, spokesperson
\n– talsm\u00e1t<\/strong> = manner of speaking, expression
\n– r\u00e6\u00f0a<\/strong> = speech, address; to speak, talk, discuss
\n– r\u00e6\u00f0inn<\/strong> = talkative<\/p>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, \u00cdslensk – ensk or\u00f0ab\u00f3k \/ Concise Icelandic – English Dictionary<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In interesting word I learnt recently in Icelandic is spjall [\u02c8spjatl\u0325], which means chat, converstation, talk or gossip. It comes from the Old Norse spjall [\u02c8spj\u0251l\u02d0] (saying, tale, words, tales, tidings); from Proto-Germanic *spell\u0105 (news, message, tale, story), from the Proto-Indo-European *spel- (to tell). A related word is spjalla, which means ‘to converse, to chat’. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,116,124,10,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553","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=14553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}