{"id":1929,"date":"2009-11-26T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T10:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2009-11-26T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T10:05:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-gwrthryfel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=1929","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; gwrthryfel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/gwrthryfel.mp3\"><em>gwrthryfel<\/em><\/a> means rebellion or mutiny. I heard it while listening to a programme on Radio Cyrmru about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioeddie.co.uk\/ebbw-vale\/chartists.htm\">The Chartists<\/a>. I worked out what it meant from its roots: <em>gwrth<\/em> (against) and <em>rhyfel<\/em> (war), and this got me thinking about how Welsh words like this are easier to understand than their English equivalents as they&#8217;re made up of Welsh roots rather than borrowing from Latin, Greek or other languages. <\/p>\n<p>Then I thought that maybe the English word rebel has the same structure as the Welsh word -I knew that the bel part had something to do with war in Latin and guessed that re meant against. I checked this and found that it comes from the Latin <em>rebellare<\/em>, to rebel, wage war against, which is made up of <em>re<\/em> (opposite, against), and <em>bellare<\/em> (to wage war), which comes from from <em>bellum<\/em> (war).<\/p>\n<p>Knowing Latin certainly can help you understand the etymology of many English words, and knowing Welsh can also be useful in unexpected ways. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word gwrthryfel means rebellion or mutiny. I heard it while listening to a programme on Radio Cyrmru about the The Chartists. I worked out what it meant from its roots: gwrth (against) and rhyfel (war), and this got me thinking about how Welsh words like this are easier to understand than their English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,15,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929","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=1929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}