{"id":20122,"date":"2020-11-07T15:06:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T15:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2020-11-08T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T13:03:30","slug":"cozy-snuddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20122","title":{"rendered":"Cozy Snuddles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of the word\/concept of <strong>hygge<\/strong>, which is &#8220;a Danish and Norwegian word for a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality with feelings of wellness and contentment&#8221;, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hygge\">Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered this week that there is an equivalent in Swedish: <strong>mys<\/strong> [\u02c8my\u02d0\u02ccs], which means &#8220;trivsel som upp\u00adst\u00e5r tack vare om\u00adbonad milj\u00f6, trevlig aktivitet e.d.&#8221; (well-being that arises due to a cozy environment, pleasant activity, etc) [<a href=\"https:\/\/svenska.se\/tre\/?sok=mys&amp;pz=1\">source<\/a>] or cosiness [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/mys\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the word <strong>hygge<\/strong> does exist in Swedish, but means a clearing in a forest made by felling trees. The Swedish translation of the Danish\/Norwegian word <strong>hygge<\/strong> is <strong>danskt mys<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rockspindeln\/20946889028\/in\/photolist-2cC86uk-dCgao8-83BLrD-xV1hk7-bF5efV-9ugxgN-9TGLQr-egrnoU-djwMHc-98ag1Y-h5nnpU-2AGHER-opKjHt-a3wTtg-fzVJhY-oFXKAP-2e1W36i-2jYEMKz-U94dCm-opJXor-oKJerX-TXJuYG-2e1W4dZ-9TKyEC-oFAhWe-oFXG2z-opJNqr-Hp3wS-oGehJ4-opJYQU-oXNTUe-oteP5W-opKcBK-opJTSi-f2LCGc-2e1W42B-23pro9p-oFXy6V-23prnFF-2cUVwQG-RSV9td-2cUVxjs-fm91k9-9VbEqp-fmCV56-gyeo6m-ceCDzN-D6AteY-6zrYf9-6yDJHu\" title=\"Lagom mysig.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5690\/20946889028_7310c20e8a_z.jpg\" alt=\"Lagom mysig.\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Danish\/Norweigan <em>myse<\/em> (squint), and ultimately from the Greek <em>\u03bc\u03cd\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd<\/em> (m\u00fdein &#8211; to close ones lips\/eyes). The English word <strong>myopic<\/strong> and <strong>myopia<\/strong> come from the same root.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>mysa<\/strong> = to smile, beam, cuddle, snuggle; to enjoy oneself; to be engaged in an activity that is comfortable or pleasurable; to be comfortable or content with something; to smile (with only slight movement of the mouth), particularly as a sign of contentedness or comfort (<em>archaic<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><strong>mysig<\/strong> = snug, cosy, pleasant, comfortable, agreeable<\/li>\n<li><strong>mysigt<\/strong> = snugly<\/li>\n<li><strong>mysighet<\/strong> = coziness<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are some examples from Duolingo of how <strong>mysa<\/strong> is used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jag myser p\u00e5 soffan med en kopp te = I snuggle on the sofa with a cup of tea<\/li>\n<li>Jag gillar att mysa med min pojkv\u00e4n = I like cuddling with my boyfriend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are there similar words in other langauges?<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/mys#Swedish\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/mys\">bab.la<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se\/folkets\/folkets.en.html#lookup&amp;mysa&amp;0\">The People&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of the word\/concept of hygge, which is &#8220;a Danish and Norwegian word for a mood of coziness and comfortable conviviality with feelings of wellness and contentment&#8221;, according to Wikipedia. I discovered this week that there is an equivalent in Swedish: mys [\u02c8my\u02d0\u02ccs], which means &#8220;trivsel som upp\u00adst\u00e5r tack vare om\u00adbonad milj\u00f6, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,104,107,118,10,31,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-greek","category-language","category-norwegian","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122","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=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20139,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/20139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}