{"id":21242,"date":"2021-08-04T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T10:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21242"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:46:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T10:46:30","slug":"funny-grips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21242","title":{"rendered":"Funny Grips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Dutch words I learnt recently is <strong>grappig<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0263r\u0251.p\u0259x], which means funny or amusing. It comes from <strong>grap<\/strong> [\u0263r\u0251p] (a joke or prank), and is related to <strong>grijpen<\/strong> [\u02c8\u0263r\u025bi\u032fp\u0259(n)] (to grap, seize, intervene), which comes from the Middle Dutch <em>gripen<\/em> (to grab, attack, overwhelm, understand), from the Old Dutch <em>gr\u012bpan<\/em> (to seize, grasp), from the Proto-West Germanic <em>*gr\u012bpan<\/em> (to grab, to grasp), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*gr\u012bpan\u0105<\/em> (to grab, grasp), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*g\u02b0reyb-<\/em> (to grab, grasp) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/grappig#Dutch\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/32814074@N00\/50528327602\/in\/photolist-2jZ1Tq7-2guBSp1-4wNtNc-4wSAwJ-ycGvhZ-2eMYRnZ-jpJ1n-4wSAgN-2iqDwkn-ecqx5V-2kScGV5-Srvezv-Wz9vVR-9JLHuJ-WgWupB-Vn9rxn-h3rjf-gYt7T5-WntL1z-WvxLpj-Wz9wq8-ULVShs-Wz9wcT-QcKdXj-VhUmiq-V2nUsZ-ULVRDo-V8WoLC-ULVS3Q-gYsYUE-WvxKdG-WvxJeN-ecaUb7-RcMc8v-9jjRZu-gYtPY8-oLCptL-dxuC8B-RcMcex-RcMc3R-VYP7U7-22QyFFy-ULVRSj-RcMbo4-Ja4Q36-rNoHFL-dxz8vw-fVJ7DG-22xZdeH-dxCNPJ\" title=\"The Hague Street Art in Het Achterom.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50528327602_fdf9d4cf36_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Hague Street Art in Het Achterom.\" width=\"640\" height=\"389\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The English words <strong>grip<\/strong> and <strong>gripe<\/strong> come from the same Proto-Germanic root, as do words such as the German <strong>greifen<\/strong> (to grab, grasp, grip, seize, snatch, reach), the Danish <strong>gribe<\/strong> (to catch, seize, grab, grasp, grip), the Swedish <strong>gripa<\/strong> (to catch hold of, seize, detain), and the French <strong>griffer<\/strong> (to scratch) and <strong>gripper<\/strong> (to grab, grasp) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/gr%C4%ABpan%C4%85\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Some related words and expressions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>grapje = joke, kidding, joking<\/li>\n<li>grappigheid = humour, funniness, comicality, liveliness, succulence<\/li>\n<li>grappenmaker = joker, prankster, funny man, comic<\/li>\n<li>grappen maken = to joke, make jokes, make fun<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you know any good Dutch jokes?<\/p>\n<p>Do you find jokes in languages you&#8217;re learning \/ have learnt funny? If you do, that is a sign that you really understand a language well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Dutch words I learnt recently is grappig [\u02c8\u0263r\u0251.p\u0259x], which means funny or amusing. It comes from grap [\u0263r\u0251p] (a joke or prank), and is related to grijpen [\u02c8\u0263r\u025bi\u032fp\u0259(n)] (to grap, seize, intervene), which comes from the Middle Dutch gripen (to grab, attack, overwhelm, understand), from the Old Dutch gr\u012bpan (to seize, grasp), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,102,104,107,111,116,10,182,203,44,45,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-middle-dutch-dietsc-duutsch","category-old-dutch","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-swedish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242","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=21242"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21249,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21242\/revisions\/21249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}