{"id":18983,"date":"2020-03-24T15:38:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18983"},"modified":"2020-03-24T15:38:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T15:38:46","slug":"hamstering-squirrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=18983","title":{"rendered":"Hamstering Squirrels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Dutch word I learnt the other day is <strong>hamsteren<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0266\u0251m.st\u0259.r\u0259(n)]. It means &#8220;to hoard (<em>food, supplies<\/em>), typically for emergencies&#8221;, and was borrowed from the German <em>hamstern<\/em> (to hoard). The same word is also found in Luxembourgish and Norwegian. It&#8217;s thought to be a reference to the way hamsters store food in their cheek pouches [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hamsteren\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rohit_saxena\/14039139471\/in\/photolist-noAg3P-4t69X7-RDL1L7-2gLwrN-37xT9M-51wi3Z-pafGjb-3BD9q-37xUiz-ndcG31-37CuGS-37CubG-kpE2YP-5n4ciN-v4xWW-dF7Sv8-dLBDUR-pw3TqJ-pgAkGy-aKSXJv-v2wCM-B4qNn-nJ2iBE-rMbQw-tXqJa-aKS1MZ-kdChwA-sBJ7b-fmYzyE-5wiVkz-j5bTZj-pgAkMo-pHgnEq-221xKv-Cuwb5-rMbSs-c1a9Z-ubpZg-fJxs7-kH1FHT-fmYAV9-cRJAFo-dkQZW-dLHcLd-iEq1a2-sztzp-jBQ7yK-dAsvtg-c1aci-4t69Xb\" title=\"a167071 henke-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7065\/14039139471_594ae1f6ff_z.jpg\" alt=\"a167071 henke-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The verb <strong>to hamster<\/strong> also exists in English and means &#8220;to secrete or store privately&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hamster#English\">source<\/a>] &#8211; not quite the same as the Dutch meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s <strong>to squirrel<\/strong>, meaning &#8220;to store in a secretive manner, to hide something for future use&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/squirrel\">source<\/a>], and <strong>to squirrel away<\/strong> (to stash or hide; to hoard, collect, save, or accumulate; to create a reserve, stash, or hoard of some supply) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/squirrel_away#English\">source<\/a>], which are closer to the meaning of <strong>hamsteren<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Are there similar words in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting Dutch word I learnt the other day is hamsteren [\u02c8\u0266\u0251m.st\u0259.r\u0259(n)]. It means &#8220;to hoard (food, supplies), typically for emergencies&#8221;, and was borrowed from the German hamstern (to hoard). The same word is also found in Luxembourgish and Norwegian. It&#8217;s thought to be a reference to the way hamsters store food in their cheek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,10,20,31,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-luxembourgish","category-norwegian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983","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=18983"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18989,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18983\/revisions\/18989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}