{"id":14794,"date":"2017-11-14T12:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14794"},"modified":"2017-11-14T12:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T11:36:56","slug":"self-habituation-and-practise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14794","title":{"rendered":"Self-habituation and practise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend excitedly pointed out that the Welsh word <strong>ymarfer<\/strong> (to exercise, practice; rehearsal; habit, custom; use) is made up of <em>ym<\/em> (self) and <em>arfer<\/em> (to use, employ; usage, practice, habit, custom, tradition, fashion, mode, manner). <\/p>\n<p>So it could be literally translated as &#8220;habituating oneself&#8221; or &#8220;self-habituation&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>This may seem obvious when you think about it, but neither my friend nor I had noticed this before.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; ymarfer corff = physical education, training or exercise<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarfer dysgu = teaching practice, teacher-training<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarferol = practical<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarferoldeb = practicality; feasibility<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarferiad = exercise, practice, rehearsal; performance, action; use, habit, custom; conduct<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarferle = gymnasium<br \/>\n&#8211; ymarferwr = trainer, practioner<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ymarfer\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night a friend excitedly pointed out that the Welsh word ymarfer (to exercise, practice; rehearsal; habit, custom; use) is made up of ym (self) and arfer (to use, employ; usage, practice, habit, custom, tradition, fashion, mode, manner). So it could be literally translated as &#8220;habituating oneself&#8221; or &#8220;self-habituation&#8221;. This may seem obvious when you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794","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=14794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}