{"id":20545,"date":"2021-02-08T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20545"},"modified":"2021-02-08T12:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:28:44","slug":"sniding-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=20545","title":{"rendered":"Sniding Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dutch friend included the expression sniding wind<\/strong> in a poem<\/a> she wrote today:<\/p>\n

\"Language<\/p>\n

Tea by the sea
\nA sniding wind
\ncomes from the east
\nIt blows through
\nAll my layers
\nMaking my hands
\nGo cold and colder
\nWhite frotty waves
\nBlack seaweed
\nPink tea gone cold too
\nQuick rush back home
\nOn my cloggerdy clogs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More Tea by the sea poems<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After writing it, she realised that sniding wind<\/strong> was an Anglified version of the Dutch expression snijdende wind<\/strong> (cutting wind).<\/p>\n

While sniding<\/strong> doesn’t exist in English, the word snide<\/strong> [sna\u026ad] does, and means “disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way” and “tricky, deceptive, false, spurious, contemptible” [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n

Snide<\/strong> comes from snithe<\/strong> [sn\u028c\u026a\u00f0 \/ sna\u026a\u00f0] (sharp, cutting, cold, piercing (wind\/weather)), from the Middle English snithen<\/em>, from the Old English sn\u012b\u00fean<\/em> (to cut, lance, hew, reap, mow), from the Proto-Germanic *sn\u012b\u00fean\u0105<\/em> (to cut), from the Proto-Indo-European *sneyt-<\/em> (to cut) [source<\/a>]. So it could have been a snithing wind<\/strong> – it certainly was yesterday.<\/p>\n

The Dutch word snijden<\/strong> (to cut, carve, intersect) comes from the same root, as does the German word schneiden<\/strong> (to cut, trim, slice), the Swedish word snida<\/strong> (to carve, engrave), the Icelandic word sn\u00ed\u00f0a<\/strong> (to trim, tailor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Dutch friend included the expression sniding wind in a poem she wrote today: Tea by the sea A sniding wind comes from the east It blows through All my layers Making my hands Go cold and colder White frotty waves Black seaweed Pink tea gone cold too Quick rush back home On my cloggerdy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,124,10,26,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-icelandic","category-language","category-middle-english","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545","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=20545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20552,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20545\/revisions\/20552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}