{"id":18355,"date":"2019-10-04T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18355"},"modified":"2019-10-05T16:07:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:07:11","slug":"when-is-a-gate-not-a-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18355","title":{"rendered":"When is a gate not a gate?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Russian lesson I did yesterday, I learnt that a word for gate is <strong>\u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0430<\/strong> (vorota). Then it gave me a phrase using a different word for gate &#8211; <strong>\u0413\u0434\u0435 \u0433\u0435\u0439\u0442<\/strong>? (Gde gejt?), which means &#8220;Where is the gate?&#8221;, and refers to the kind of gate you get at an airport. Slightly confusing. So I wondered what kind of gate is a <strong>\u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0430<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently a <strong>\u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0430<\/strong> is a (double) gate, gateway, portal, goal or sluicegate.<\/p>\n<p>Other Russian words for gate include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u0432\u044b\u0445\u043e\u0434<\/strong> (vychod) = egress, exit, gate, orifice, outcome<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u0432\u0445\u043e\u0434<\/strong> (vchod) = embouchure, entrance, entry, gate, gateway, ingress, inlet<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u0448\u043b\u0430\u0433\u0431\u0430\u0443\u043c<\/strong> (shlagbaum) = gate (of lock, level crossing), tollbar<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u043a\u0430\u043b\u0438\u0442\u043a\u0430<\/strong> (kalitka) = (single) gate, wicket<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u0448\u043b\u044e\u0437<\/strong> (shlyuz) = flood-gate, gate, lock, sluice<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u0433\u0435\u0439\u0442<\/strong> (gejt) = gate (at an airport)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are some illustrations on different kinds of gates I found via Google:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/gates.jpg\" alt=\"Some different kinds of gates and the words for them in Russian\" width=\"599\" height=\"366\"><\/p>\n<p>Searching for images of words like this seems is interesting, and may help me to remember them.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.reverso.net\/english-russian\/gate\">Reverso Dictionary<\/a><\/em><em> &amp; <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/english-russian\/gate\">bab.la<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Russian lesson I did yesterday, I learnt that a word for gate is \u0432\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0430 (vorota). Then it gave me a phrase using a different word for gate &#8211; \u0413\u0434\u0435 \u0433\u0435\u0439\u0442? (Gde gejt?), which means &#8220;Where is the gate?&#8221;, and refers to the kind of gate you get at an airport. Slightly confusing. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355","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=18355"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18382,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}