{"id":21063,"date":"2021-06-11T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21063"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:26:01","slug":"feeling-nesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21063","title":{"rendered":"Neshness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you they were feeling a bit <strong>nesh<\/strong>, would you know what they meant?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nesh<\/strong> [n\u025b\u0283] means &#8220;sensitive to the cold&#8221; and &#8220;timid or cowardly&#8221;, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/nesh\">Dictionary.com<\/a>, and is apparently used in in northern and Midlands English dialects. Although I grew up in the northwest of England, I&#8217;d never heard it before a friend mentioned it yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nesh\">Wiktionary<\/a> it means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Soft, tender, sensitive, yielding<\/li>\n<li>Delicate, weak, poor-spirited, susceptible to cold weather, harsh conditions etc<\/li>\n<li>Soft, friable, crumbly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a verb it means &#8220;to make soft, tender or weak&#8221;, or &#8220;to act timidly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>nesh\/nesch\/nesche<\/em>, from the Old English <em>hnes\u010be\/ hnys\u010be\/hn\u00e6s\u010be<\/em> (soft, tender, mild; weak, delicate; slack, negligent; effeminate, wanton), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*hnaskw\u012b<\/em> (soft), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*hnaskuz<\/em> (soft, tender), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*kn\u0113s-\/*kenes-<\/em> (to scratch, scrape, rub).<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>neshen = to make tender or soft, to mollify<\/li>\n<li>neshness = the condition of being nesh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dichohecho\/3062117056\/in\/photolist-5EA9HE-q6DfnQ-3WbdJS-7ivjgc-mEb3PV-prrVTa-prrVUx-qo99Hd-5eHShx-9k2fp6-jQw42-qo2AGR-fpG6ZH-d7SAL-ygY7Hn-9HUqE-fQy89m-npchWS-4yADnS-gA9hi-ajdyz6-5GrHY6-r62fEv-mEcQkS-23aitzr-xgtzzc-2k5V3ZH-pCEyv6-pATZw9-Kn2MW-FFpth-2ia6Kux-ecwwvR-8AdYaN-5cYJqM-2ipC612-e7B7NK-2iaLtRf-EymDV-qZP5Mq-fjXxSe-3B4jr-4VsJ93-5KKxqa-dCvf8w-4sDKkJ-9fWe7G-8iEMs4-2k5RgTU-5MC35J\" title=\"Chocolate Beetroot Brownies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3194\/3062117056_7d466a8966_z.jpg\" alt=\"Chocolate Beetroot Brownies\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>From the same roots we get the German word <strong>naschen<\/strong> (to nibble, to eat sweets on the sly), and the English word <strong>nosh<\/strong> (food, a light meal or snack, to eat), via the Yiddish word <strong>\u05e0\u05d0\u05b7\u05e9\u05df\u200e<\/strong> (nashn &#8211; to snack, eat) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/nosh#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone told you they were feeling a bit nesh, would you know what they meant? Nesh [n\u025b\u0283] means &#8220;sensitive to the cold&#8221; and &#8220;timid or cowardly&#8221;, according to Dictionary.com, and is apparently used in in northern and Midlands English dialects. Although I grew up in the northwest of England, I&#8217;d never heard it before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,104,107,116,10,26,33,44,45,202,78,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-proto-west-germanic","category-words-and-phrases","category-yiddish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063","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=21063"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21069,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21063\/revisions\/21069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}