{"id":15450,"date":"2018-04-26T11:46:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15450"},"modified":"2018-04-26T11:46:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:46:29","slug":"infestigeiddio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15450","title":{"rendered":"Infestigeiddio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I was looking for podcasts about language and linguistics in various languages, and found an interesting one in Welsh – Hacio’r Iaith (Hacking Language)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The episode I listened to today included the word infestigeiddio<\/strong> (to investigate), which is an interesting example of an English noun that has been made into a Welsh verb. I haven’t seen this word written anywhere – it didn’t appear anywhere online, as far as I can discover, but does now. It is used in the following context:<\/p>\n

Mae rhaid i ni rhoi i’r awdurdodau p\u0175er i infestigeiddio beth sy’n digwydd gyda data, gyda rhifau, gyda metrics hysbysebi, er enghraifft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This means “We need to give the authorities power to investigate what is happening with data, with figures, with advertising metrics, for example.” It’s part of a discussion about social media sites like Facebook and the data they collect about their users.<\/p>\n

There are a few other ways to say investigate in Welsh: ymchwilio, archwilio, astudio, gwneud ymchwiliad, gwneud ymholiad<\/em>. The common root for most of these is chwilio<\/em> [\u02c8\u03c7w\u026alj\u0254] (to search, look for, examine, find) [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

With some words you can just add io<\/strong> to make it a Welsh verb. With others, like investigate, the spelling needs some tweaking as well.<\/p>\n

Other similar examples include licio<\/em> (to like), parcio<\/em> (to park), pacio<\/em> (to pack), hwfro<\/em> (to hoover \/ vacuum), and smwddio<\/em> (to iron – from smooth).<\/p>\n

Can you recommend interesting podcasts, especially about language and lingusitics, in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I was looking for podcasts about language and linguistics in various languages, and found an interesting one in Welsh – Hacio’r Iaith (Hacking Language). The episode I listened to today included the word infestigeiddio (to investigate), which is an interesting example of an English noun that has been made into a Welsh verb. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","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=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}