{"id":14954,"date":"2017-12-20T13:08:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14954"},"modified":"2017-12-20T13:08:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T12:08:58","slug":"average-dainty-sandwiches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14954","title":{"rendered":"Average dainty sandwiches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I learnt the Swedish word <strong>genomsnitt<\/strong> [j\u00e8\u02d0n\u0254m\u02ccsn\u026at], which means average or approximately. I thought I&#8217;d write about it as I like the way it sounds.<\/p>\n<p>It comes <em>genom<\/em> (though, across) and <em>snitt<\/em> (a cut, an average). <em>Genom<\/em> comes from the Old Norse <em>gegn<\/em> (through), and <em>snitt<\/em> comes from the Proto-Germanic <em>*snit<\/em> (cutting, pruning, harversting).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Genom<\/strong> also appears in other words, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>genombrott = a breakthrough, a breakdown<\/li>\n<li>genombruten = openwork, lace, laced, transparent<\/li>\n<li>genomf\u00f6ra = carry out, realize, accomplish, execute<\/li>\n<li>genomg\u00e5ende = throughout<\/li>\n<li>genomg\u00e5ng = a walkthrough, a briefing, a summary<\/li>\n<li>genomskinlig = translucent; transparent<\/li>\n<li>genomslag = impact<\/li>\n<li>genomsnittlig = average, mean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Genom<\/strong> also means genome.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snitt<\/strong> also means dainty sandwich, fashion, incision, cut, section.<\/p>\n<p>Related words, and other words containing <strong>snitt<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>snida = to carve<\/li>\n<li>snidare = cutter<\/li>\n<li>snideri \/ snidande = carving<\/li>\n<li>snitta = averaging, dollar cost averaging, to gash<\/li>\n<li>snittning = averaging<\/li>\n<li>k\u00e4gelsnitt = conic section<\/li>\n<li>avsnitt = section, part, sector<\/li>\n<li>kejsarsnitt = cesarean<\/li>\n<li>tv\u00e4rsnitt = cross section<\/li>\n<li>tr\u00e4snitt = woodcut<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/genomsnitt\">bab.la<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/genomsnitt\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I learnt the Swedish word genomsnitt [j\u00e8\u02d0n\u0254m\u02ccsn\u026at], which means average or approximately. I thought I&#8217;d write about it as I like the way it sounds. It comes genom (though, across) and snitt (a cut, an average). Genom comes from the Old Norse gegn (through), and snitt comes from the Proto-Germanic *snit (cutting, pruning, harversting). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,36,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-old-norse","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954","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=14954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}