{"id":14875,"date":"2017-11-30T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14875"},"modified":"2017-11-30T14:15:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T13:15:12","slug":"gloopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14875","title":{"rendered":"Gloopy!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Russian word I learnt this week is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%D0%B3%D0%BB%D1%83%D0%BF%D1%8B%D0%B9\"><strong>\u0433\u043b\u0443\u043f\u044b\u0439<\/strong><\/a> (glupyj) [\u02c8\u0261lup\u0268j], which means silly, stupid, foolish or inane, but sounds like one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/names\/7dwarfs.htm\">seven dwarfs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian name for the dwarf dopey is actually <em>\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043a<\/em> (Prostak), which means simpleton. <\/p>\n<p><strong>\u0413\u043b\u0443\u043f\u044b\u0439<\/strong> comes from the Proto-Slavic <em>*glup\u044a<\/em> (stupid, foolish), which possibly comes from a Germanic source. Cognates in Germanic languages include <em>gl\u00f3pr<\/em> (idiot) in Old Norse, and <em>gl\u00f3pur<\/em> (fool, idiot) in Icelandic.<\/p>\n<p>Cognates in Slavic languages include:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bulgarian \u0433\u043b\u0443\u043f\u0430\u0432 (glupav) = stupid, silly, foolish, fool, unwise, sappy<br \/>\n&#8211; Croatian glup = stupid, dumb, silly, dull, brainless, dense<br \/>\n&#8211; Serbian \u0433\u043b\u0443\u043f = stupid, dumb, silly, dull, dense, obtuse<br \/>\n&#8211; Slovene gl\u00fap = dumb, stupid, moronic<br \/>\n&#8211; Slovak hl\u00fapy = stupid, silly, foolish<br \/>\n&#8211; Czech hloup\u00fd = stupid, silly, foolish<\/p>\n<p>A related word in Russian is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/%D1%82%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%B9#Russian\"><strong>\u0442\u0443\u043f\u043e\u0439<\/strong><\/a> (typoj) [t\u028a\u02c8poj], which means &#8216;dull, blunt; obtuse; dull, stupid&#8217;. It comes from the Old East Slavic <em>\u0442\u0443\u043f\u044a<\/em> (tup\u016d), from Proto-Slavic <em>*t\u01ebp\u044a<\/em>, and sounds like the Welsh word <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/twp#Welsh\"><em>twp<\/em><\/a> [t\u028ap], which means stupid. Is there any connection?<\/p>\n<p>The word <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/stupid#English\"><strong>stupid<\/strong><\/a> comes from the Middle French <em>stupide<\/em> (stupid), from the Latin <em>stupidus<\/em> (struck senseless, amazed), from <em>stupe\u014d<\/em> (to be amazed or confounded, to be struck senseless), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*(s)tup-<\/em> \/ <em>*(s)tewp-<\/em> (to wonder), from <em>*(s)tu-<\/em> (to stand, stay).<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d made up the word <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gloopy\">gloopy<\/a>, but it does exist, and means &#8216;Having a glutinous, sloppy consistency&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Russian word I learnt this week is \u0433\u043b\u0443\u043f\u044b\u0439 (glupyj) [\u02c8\u0261lup\u0268j], which means silly, stupid, foolish or inane, but sounds like one of the seven dwarfs. The Russian name for the dwarf dopey is actually \u041f\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u043a (Prostak), which means simpleton. \u0413\u043b\u0443\u043f\u044b\u0439 comes from the Proto-Slavic *glup\u044a (stupid, foolish), which possibly comes from a Germanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,98,99,104,107,111,124,10,15,36,45,52,57,60,61,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgarian","category-croatian","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-icelandic","category-language","category-latin","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-serbian","category-slovak","category-slovenian","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875","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=14875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}