{"id":22621,"date":"2022-12-21T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22621"},"modified":"2022-12-21T13:33:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T13:33:29","slug":"werifesteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22621","title":{"rendered":"Werifesteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word <strong>werifesteria<\/strong> the other day on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ramblingroma\/video\/7179153079449767173?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7140304587576018437\">TikTok<\/a>, which means &#8220;to wander through a forest in search of mystery&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pixelgewitter\/45710025461\/in\/photolist-2cDeQ4g-HiMfcK-KZowwC-2b4MN7H-HcJRqT-23Vj9bD-2dYCsat-H8wsAY-2bYikjD-24toWZ8-215giuN-XbHEt3-Xfryye-22oGoLh-Edjx7e-2b1UXG7-2bdDUEQ-2bq8J6W-LvF1dZ-ZdHqHd-2cKJQMN-2cQ9ZUf-XomMSU-299vB5R-YU4Px1-YPdiGW-28nv59w-23kXT9d-275aift-26iJdsW-cuVx6Q-29wohxc-L1GKkx-FwMNWS-FyrFpu-5zwBgK-22cVxo7-5HWPiC-PYq2Vk-sc645T-22teKEq-AFkgYi-2dTp6t7-6pgPvN-Zxqaop-2btCJzA-2bL1ktW-YPEQ3U-YRAE5J-41WERk\" title=\"Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/1971\/45710025461_e5a347d45c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another definition of this word is to &#8220;wonder longingly through the woods in search of mystery or magic&#8221; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/werifesteria\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/nl\/vroy.htm#N4\">World Wide Words<\/a> it appeared out of thin air in late 2014, and nobody seems to know who coined it. Rumours circulating on social media that it comes from Old English are apparently untrue [<a href=\"https:\/\/emotionalgranularity.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/01\/werifesteria\/\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps someone who was indulging in some <strong>\u68ee\u6797\u6d74<\/strong> (shinrin yoku)* came up with the word <strong>werifesteria<\/strong>. In case you&#8217;re not familiar with <strong>\u68ee\u6797\u6d74<\/strong>, it&#8217;s a Japanese term that means forest bathing, forest therapy, or peaceful walk through the woods for health benefits\u200b [<a href=\"https:\/\/jisho.org\/search\/%E6%A3%AE%E6%9E%97%E6%B5%B4\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other interesting forest-related words that you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word werifesteria the other day on TikTok, which means &#8220;to wander through a forest in search of mystery&#8221;. Another definition of this word is to &#8220;wonder longingly through the woods in search of mystery or magic&#8221; [source]. According to World Wide Words it appeared out of thin air in late 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-japanese","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621","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=22621"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22626,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621\/revisions\/22626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}