{"id":19312,"date":"2020-06-13T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2020-06-13T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T14:00:22","slug":"breath-forts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=19312","title":{"rendered":"Breath Forts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the words that came up this week in the French conversation group I&#8217;m part of was <strong>ch\u00e2teau gonflable<\/strong> or inflatable\/bouncy castle.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hackaday\/528880394\/in\/photolist-NJDHu-dRUutZ-fcZfB-ckGVw3-cKtwqA-dS162h-dRUtsZ-dcCiJN-vkTJF1-3926LA-9StPeg-dcChiD-5ygpyk-dcChJK-dcCh7k-vSQ2eA-bs1Fdn-jjkiT-dcChMc-uNMocJ-8FotU-kcH2uN-dS15tU-o1mWsr-dcCjjY-5ykYTb-dS15Qw-uNM3pQ-QmANFh-bs1FtV-uZp3de-aKUyVH-7URo3c-9ZYsab-dcCi7D-5ykP2w-6HJ4Fa-dRUt9F-kryT-nHojC-kQyVC-dS15Wf-5ygusn-5ygq6p-eMzoLg-dcCiZq-aoJyAt-dcChWe-57uPkj-2aFNmF\" title=\"Bouncy castle\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1174\/528880394_7f66a6602c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Bouncy castle\" width=\"640\" height=\"540\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word <strong>gonflable<\/strong> means inflatable, and comes from <strong>gonfler<\/strong> (to blow up, inflate, pump up, swell, rise, bore), from the Latin <em>c\u014dnfl\u0101re<\/em>, from <em>c\u014dnfl\u014d<\/em> (I kindle (a fire); I forge, fuse, melt (metal); I refine \/ purify; I inflame (passions)), from <em>con-<\/em> (with) &amp; <em>fl\u014d<\/em> (breathe, blow) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/gonflable\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>From the same root we get the English word <strong>conflate<\/strong> (to mix together different elements; to fail to distinguish separate things).<\/p>\n<p>Other expressions featuring <strong>gonflable<\/strong> include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>sac\/coussin gonflable = airbag<\/li>\n<li>bateau gonflable = inflatable boat<\/li>\n<li>matelas gonflable = air bed\/mattress<\/li>\n<li>aire de jeux gonflables\t= soft play area<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I call such things bouncy castles, but they have other names, such as inflatable castles, bouncing castle, bouncy houses, bounce houses, jumping castle, moon bounces, moonwalks or jumpers.<\/p>\n<p>What do you call them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the words that came up this week in the French conversation group I&#8217;m part of was ch\u00e2teau gonflable or inflatable\/bouncy castle. The word gonflable means inflatable, and comes from gonfler (to blow up, inflate, pump up, swell, rise, bore), from the Latin c\u014dnfl\u0101re, from c\u014dnfl\u014d (I kindle (a fire); I forge, fuse, melt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,10,15,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-language","category-latin","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312","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=19312"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}