{"id":209,"date":"2006-11-03T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T18:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/03\/word-of-the-day-rio\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T19:09:32","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T18:09:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=209","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>rio<\/em>, means frost, freezing or ice in Manx, and river in Portuguese. In Spanish, <em>r\u00edo<\/em> means river, stream, torrent, lengthy, long-lasting, epic or interminable.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Manx words and phrases<\/strong><br \/>\nriojey = ice up, freeze, frost, icing<br \/>\nrioeeagh = frosty<br \/>\nrioghar = icicle<br \/>\nrioee = glacial<br \/>\ncrammag rio = ice hockey (lit. &#8220;ice snail&#8221;)<br \/>\nmoddey rio = husky (lit. &#8220;ice dog&#8221;)<br \/>\ncoyr rioee = fridge<br \/>\nEean y ghob jiarg = Jack Frost (lit. &#8220;Red-mouthed John&#8221;)<br \/>\nTa Eean y ghob jiarg mooie jiu = it&#8217;s frosty today<\/p>\n<p><strong>Example of usage<\/strong><br \/>\nChan nel bodjal er-egin &#8216;syn aer jiu as bee rio ayn noght, son shickyrys.<br \/>\n<em>There&#8217;s been barely a cloud in the sky today and it&#8217;s certainly going to freeze tonight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The sun&#8217;s been shining most of the day here and it&#8217;s been pleasantly warm indoors, but the moment you step outside you&#8217;re hit by the cold. There&#8217;s a ring around the moon as well &#8211; a sure sign of frost.<\/p>\n<p>Are there equivalent names for Jack Frost, the personification of frost or winter weather, in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, rio, means frost, freezing or ice in Manx, and river in Portuguese. In Spanish, r\u00edo means river, stream, torrent, lengthy, long-lasting, epic or interminable. Related Manx words and phrases riojey = ice up, freeze, frost, icing rioeeagh = frosty rioghar = icicle rioee = glacial crammag rio = ice hockey (lit. &#8220;ice snail&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-manx","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}