{"id":22861,"date":"2023-05-05T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22861"},"modified":"2023-05-05T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T13:26:55","slug":"beautifully-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22861","title":{"rendered":"Beautifully Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I started learning Finnish &#8211; I have a few Finnish friends, and just like the sound of the language. I\u2019m currently using Duolingo, and may try other apps and resources.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/saminkuvat\/3667984345\/in\/photolist-LZ6vp9-LZ6vk1-JhLHWS-5QJnKj-4en9GV-55DLGU-2izpVLG-o6bNzE-o84UfR-6A8oDZ-6A8nXp-6A8nQ8-6AcvUb-5e6wfK-o5ZC38-uB7zDQ-c76Fnq-6AcwEo-6AcwtY-7gRWFL-o6bVsY-6A8nTz-o4fuoh-o854n8-o6bf9E-9QEMPj-6A8o3M-2nsZjC4-2nrXnPV-nRoK6d-2nrWNSB-RWG5So-DB7qxn-2nrY4xs-CXtZHe-pC95aQ-MNFFG-2qbk5P-asgSir-nNNhLE-AzHHu-DcpxF2-sf8vPK-C8odVZ-CXtNNZ-dht1x6-7Vi2Vj-22rNqaz-2nrPwbN-8yM4Kb\" title=\"H\u00f6yti\u00e4inen - Suomi, Finland.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/3544\/3667984345_8241487117_z.jpg\" alt=\"H\u00f6yti\u00e4inen - Suomi, Finland.\" width=\"640\" height=\"373\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>One of the words that comes up quite often in my lessons is <strong>kaunis<\/strong> [\u02c8k\u0251\u031du\u032fnis\u0320], which means beautiful, pretty, or fair (weather). For example, <em>H\u00e4n on todella kaunis<\/em> (She is really beautiful).<\/p>\n<p>It comes from the Proto-Finnic <em>*kaunis<\/em> (beautiful), from the Proto-Germanic <em>*skauniz<\/em> (beautiful, shining) from the PIE <em>*(s)kewh\u2081-<\/em> (to perceive, pay attention) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/kaunis#Finnish\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>kauniisti<\/strong> = beautifully<\/li>\n<li><strong>kaunistaa<\/strong> = to embellish, beautify, prettify<\/li>\n<li><strong>kaunistella<\/strong> = to embellish, sugar, prettify, euphemize, be euphemistic<\/li>\n<li><strong>kaunismuotoinen<\/strong> = shapely, with a beautiful shape<\/li>\n<li><strong>kuvankaunis<\/strong> = picturesque<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Finnic root include <strong>kaunis<\/strong> (beautiful) in Estonian, <strong>kaunis<\/strong> (pretty, beautiful) in Karelian, and <strong>kauniz<\/strong> (red) in Votic [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Finnic\/kaunis\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same Proto-Germanic root include <strong>sheen<\/strong> in English, <strong>sk\u00f6n<\/strong> (fair, beautiful, comfortable, pleasurable) in Swedish, <strong>schoon<\/strong> (clean, beautiful) in Dutch, <strong>sch\u00f6n<\/strong> (beautiful, lovely, pretty, good, great, nice) in German, and <strong>\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9\u05df<\/strong> (sheyn &#8211; beautiful, pretty, cute, handsome, nice) in Yiddish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/skauniz\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Have you learnt any languages because you like the sound of them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I started learning Finnish &#8211; I have a few Finnish friends, and just like the sound of the language. I\u2019m currently using Duolingo, and may try other apps and resources. One of the words that comes up quite often in my lessons is kaunis [\u02c8k\u0251\u031du\u032fnis\u0320], which means beautiful, pretty, or fair (weather). For example, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22861","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=22861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22866,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22861\/revisions\/22866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}