{"id":16085,"date":"2018-08-31T18:47:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16085"},"modified":"2018-08-31T18:47:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-31T17:47:49","slug":"mr-gospod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16085","title":{"rendered":"Mr Gospod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenian <strong>gospod<\/strong> [\u0261\u0254\u02c8sp\u00f3\u02d0t] came up in my Slovenian lesson today. It means mister, sir, gentleman or lord. It comes from the Proto-Slavic <em>*gospod\u044c<\/em> (lord, master).<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of how it&#8217;s used include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gospod \u017eupnik = Reverend<\/li>\n<li>spo\u0161tovani gospod = Dear Sir<\/li>\n<li>grajski gospod = Lord of the castle <\/li>\n<li>biti sam svoj gospod = to be one&#8217;s own master<\/li>\n<li>Gospod Bog = the Lord God\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last example appears in a song we sing in the Bangor Community Choir, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/bcc\/vsityahori.htm\"><em>Vsy Tya Hori (\u0412\u0441\u0438 \u0422\u044f \u0445\u043e\u0440\u0438)<\/em><\/a> (All your choirs), which is in Church Slavonic, I think.<\/p>\n<p>You can see and hear us sing it in Penrhyn castle, near Bangor, here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C44A8qUWhyc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>gospoda = lords, gentlemen<\/li>\n<li>gospodar = landowner, master<\/li>\n<li>gospodar posestva = lord of the manor<\/li>\n<li>gospodarica = mistress<\/li>\n<li>gospodi\u010dna = miss<\/li>\n<li>gaspa = mrs, lady<\/li>\n<li>gospe in gospodje = ladies and gentlemen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other Slavic languages have a similar words:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russian &#038; Ukrainian: <strong>\u0433\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434\u044c<\/strong> = the Lord, God<\/li>\n<li>Bulgarian, Macedonian &#038; Serbian: <strong>\u0433\u043e\u0441\u043f\u043e\u0434<\/strong> = Lord, Jesus<\/li>\n<li>Croatian: <strong>gospod<\/strong> = Mr, Lord, Jesus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.pons.com\/translate?q=gospod&#038;l=ensl&#038;in=ac_sl&#038;lf=en\">PONS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gospod\">Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Slovenian gospod [\u0261\u0254\u02c8sp\u00f3\u02d0t] came up in my Slovenian lesson today. It means mister, sir, gentleman or lord. It comes from the Proto-Slavic *gospod\u044c (lord, master). Some examples of how it&#8217;s used include: gospod \u017eupnik = Reverend spo\u0161tovani gospod = Dear Sir grajski gospod = Lord of the castle biti sam svoj gospod = to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93,98,104,10,21,52,57,61,75,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bulgarian","category-croatian","category-english","category-language","category-macedonian","category-russian","category-serbian","category-slovenian","category-ukrainian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085","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=16085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}