{"id":17489,"date":"2019-02-14T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17489"},"modified":"2019-02-14T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:26:10","slug":"a-way-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17489","title":{"rendered":"A Way to Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/divadlo.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 20px 30px;\" alt=\"Divadlo\" width=\"288\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A word that has come up a number of times in the Czech lessons I&#8217;ve studied this week is <strong>divadlo<\/strong> [\u02c8\u025f\u026avadlo] (theatre). I have to look it up every time as I don&#8217;t remember what it means.<\/p>\n<p>So I thought if I look into its etymology and find some related words, it might help me to remember it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Divadlo<\/strong> means theatre, drama or play-acting, and comes from <em>d\u00edvat<\/em> (to look, watch) and <em>-dlo<\/em> (an instrumental suffix), so it means something like &#8216;a way to watch&#8217; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/divadlo\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>divadeln\u00ed = theatrical<\/li>\n<li>divadeln\u011b = theatrically<\/li>\n<li>politick\u00e9 divadlo = political play-acting<\/li>\n<li>loutkov\u00e9 divadlo = puppetry<\/li>\n<li>divadlo pro ve\u0159ejnost = publicity stunt<\/li>\n<li>hr\u00e1t divadlo = to act out a play<\/li>\n<li>d\u00edvat = to look<\/li>\n<li>d\u00edvat se = to look, watch, gaze<\/li>\n<li>pod\u00edvat = to peep<\/li>\n<li>pod\u00edvat se = to see, to look at, to have a look, to take a look<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/czech-english\/divadlo\">bab.la<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word that has come up a number of times in the Czech lessons I&#8217;ve studied this week is divadlo [\u02c8\u025f\u026avadlo] (theatre). I have to look it up every time as I don&#8217;t remember what it means. So I thought if I look into its etymology and find some related words, it might help me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489","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=17489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}