{"id":15583,"date":"2018-05-18T16:38:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=15583"},"modified":"2018-05-18T16:38:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:38:29","slug":"oina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=15583","title":{"rendered":"Oin\u0103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/oina.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 50px;\" alt=\"People playing oin\u0103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I came across the <strong>oin\u0103<\/strong> in one of the Romanian lessons I did today. It&#8217;s translated as &#8216;oina&#8217; without any explanation of what it means. As the lesson was about sport and <strong>oin\u0103<\/strong> is something you play, I guessed that it&#8217;s some kind of sport.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oin%C4%83\">Wikpedia<\/a>, <strong>oin\u0103<\/strong> [\u02c8oj.n\u0259] is a traditional Romanian sport similar to baseball and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lapta_(game)\">lapta<\/a> (a similar Russian sport).<\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>oin\u0103<\/strong> was originally <em>hoina<\/em>, and is comes from the Cuman word <em>oyn<\/em> (game), which is cognate with the Turkish oyun). The game was first mention in writing in 1364. Cuman is an extinct Turkish language that was spoken in Hungary until the 18th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the oin\u0103 in one of the Romanian lessons I did today. It&#8217;s translated as &#8216;oina&#8217; without any explanation of what it means. As the lesson was about sport and oin\u0103 is something you play, I guessed that it&#8217;s some kind of sport. According to Wikpedia, oin\u0103 [\u02c8oj.n\u0259] is a traditional Romanian sport [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,51,74,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-romanian","category-turkish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583","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=15583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}