{"id":16860,"date":"2018-10-10T13:07:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16860"},"modified":"2018-10-10T13:07:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T12:07:26","slug":"lost-and-confused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16860","title":{"rendered":"Lost and confused?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A useful phrase that came up in my Swedish lessons on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/1135112\/swedish-3\/1\/\">Memrise<\/a> this week is <strong>Jag \u00e4r lite f\u00f6rvirrad<\/strong>, which means &#8220;I&#8217;m a little confused&#8221;. This is quite a useful phase when you&#8217;re learning a new language, or trying to make sense of a new place, country or custom.<\/p>\n<p>Another phrase that came up is <strong>Vi har g\u00e5tt vilse<\/strong>, which means &#8220;We&#8217;re lost&#8221; or literally &#8220;We have gone\/walked astray&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>F\u00f6rvirrad<\/strong> means confused, perplexed, addled, addlepated, bewildered, bumbling, chaotic, crazed, discombobulated, distracted, disturbed, dizzy, flighty, muddled, befuddled, diffuse, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/f%C3%B6rvirrad\">bab.la<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few examples of how it&#8217;s used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just nu ser han v\u00e4ldigt f\u00f6rvirrad ut<br \/>\n<em>Right now he&#8217;s got a real bewildered look on his face<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Allt detta g\u00f6r att man k\u00e4nner sig f\u00f6rvirrad<br \/>\n<em>All of this cannot fail to make one dizzy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Men i mitt f\u00f6rvirrade tillst\u00e5nd, hamnade jag v\u00e4ldigt snabbt i sj\u00e4lvhj\u00e4lpsavdelningen<br \/>\n<em>But given my befuddled state of mind, I ended up in the self-help section very quickly<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>f\u00f6rvirra<\/strong> = to confuse, confound, daze, bemuse, befuddle, bewilder, discombobulate, disorient, mix up, obscure<\/li>\n<li><strong>f\u00f6rvirrade<\/strong> = disconcerting<\/li>\n<li><strong>f\u00f6rvirrande<\/strong> = perplexity, confusing, bewildering, perplexing<\/li>\n<li><strong>f\u00f6rvirring<\/strong> = disorder, bafflement, bewilderment, confusion, daze, disorientation, distraction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>f\u00f6rvirra<\/strong> comes from the Middle Low German <em>vorwerren<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/forvirra\">source<\/a>], which is also the root of <em>verwirren<\/em> (to confuse) in German and <em>verwarren<\/em> (to tangle, confuse, confound, befuddle) in Dutch. <\/p>\n<p>The <em>ver-<\/em> and <em>-en<\/em> are affixes. The <em>warr\/wirr\/werr<\/em> part comes from Middle Dutch <em>werre\/warre<\/em> (confusion, disarray, conflict), from Old Dutch <em>*werra<\/em>, from Proto-Germanic <em>*werr\u014d<\/em> (confusion, disarray, conflict, strife), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*wers-<\/em> (to grind, sand, sharpen, hone). The English <strong>war<\/strong> comes from the same root [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/war#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Vilse<\/strong> means lost, astray, wrong, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/vilse\">bab.la<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>vilseg\u00e5ngen<\/strong> = lost<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilsef\u00f6ra<\/strong> = to confuse<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilsef\u00f6rt<\/strong> = blindsided<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilsekommen<\/strong> = lost, stray, wandering<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilseleda<\/strong> = to confuse, deceive, delude, misdirect, misguide, misinform, mislead<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilseledande<\/strong> = misleading, deceitful, deceptive, delusive, duplicitous, deceptively<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilseledat<\/strong> = misguided<\/li>\n<li><strong>vilseledd<\/strong> = to mislead<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Vilse<\/strong> comes from <em>vill<\/em> (lost), from Old Norse <em>villr<\/em> (wild), from Proto-Germanic <em>*wil\u00feijaz<\/em> (wild), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*wel-\/*welw-<\/em> (hair, wool, grass, ear (of corn), forest), which is also the root of the English word <strong>wild<\/strong>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vill#Swedish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A useful phrase that came up in my Swedish lessons on Memrise this week is Jag \u00e4r lite f\u00f6rvirrad, which means &#8220;I&#8217;m a little confused&#8221;. This is quite a useful phase when you&#8217;re learning a new language, or trying to make sense of a new place, country or custom. Another phrase that came up is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,36,45,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-old-norse","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860","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=16860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}