{"id":2228,"date":"2010-01-27T17:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:27:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-ortzikara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; ortzikara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>ortzikara<\/em>, is Basque and means &#8220;time when a storm is brewing&#8221; or in Spanish &#8220;tiempo amenazado por la tormenta&#8221;. Do any other language have a single word to express this meaning?<\/p>\n<p>This word comes from a book I&#8217;m reading at the moment &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0330372815\/omniglot-21\"><em>Mother Tongues &#8211; Travels through Tribal Europe<\/em><\/a>, by Helena Drysdale, in which the author and her family travel through Europe visiting people who speak minority languages such as Basque, Occitan, Sami and Corsican.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include <em>ihortziri<\/em> (thunder), <em>tximista<\/em> (lightning), <em>truxu<\/em> (light rain), <em>euri<\/em> (heavy rain), <em>bisuts<\/em> (torrential rain), <em>zara-zara<\/em> (heavy rain), <em>ortzadar<\/em> (rainbow), <em>haize<\/em> (wind), <em>elur<\/em> (snow) and <em>bisutsa<\/em> (light snow). In fact there seems to be quite a lot words in Basque for different kinds of weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, ortzikara, is Basque and means &#8220;time when a storm is brewing&#8221; or in Spanish &#8220;tiempo amenazado por la tormenta&#8221;. Do any other language have a single word to express this meaning? This word comes from a book I&#8217;m reading at the moment &#8211; Mother Tongues &#8211; Travels through Tribal Europe, by Helena Drysdale, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,10,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basque","category-language","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","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=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}