{"id":23003,"date":"2023-08-04T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23003"},"modified":"2023-08-04T14:12:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T14:12:13","slug":"smiling-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23003","title":{"rendered":"Smiling Hum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Finnish words that I learnt recently and really like is  <strong>hymy<\/strong> [\u02c8hymy] which means smile. Apparently it is imitative of the short humming sound associated with smiling. In fact, it\u2019s difficult to say without smiling [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hymy\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roxeteer\/8866793\/in\/photolist-MrMK-8ZYcBB-2meskxu-LpWcjx-hTftF-27Zi5KA-N8uFS7-arFU9F-7Wb8rU-2che5kJ-84ecbD-89YnDA-mqY5-7pQ6ZH-7akfLJ-7akcYb-25n5sLA-2gaRxmK-7Fp1TX-2gbbNa2-4TKw36-6snHD8-R7EBva-25n5kyj-MaEpSB-5hG4NG-2gb9uey-2xVBj4-hTi4P-2avTY1g-24sLBNA-2gb5oTg-8dkVsj-NHMEDe-2gb4Rof-5GdPx3-hayVc-2jtmN9b-2nFBYTu-nniVqr-xKkwQi-dwq18o-2jtmDL9-2gb5i9U-5GdPGd-y1zTBL-25xmqBK-2kY3Bfx-5G9wUZ-25xmrJK\" title=\"Woody smiling\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8\/8866793_83be84dd54_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Woody smiling\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>hymyt\u00e4<\/strong> = to smile<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymyill\u00e4<\/strong> = to smile, beam, smirk, grin<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymyilytt\u00e4\u00e4<\/strong> = to make someone smile, to amuse, to feel like smiling<\/li>\n<li><strong>hym\u00e4ht\u00e4\u00e4<\/strong> [\u02c8hym\u00e6ht\u032a\u00e6\u02d0(\u0294)] = to smile shortly, especially with a short &#8220;hm&#8221; sound; to scorn, often with <em>ivallisesti<\/em> (mockingly), to raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn, to sneer<\/li>\n<li> <strong>hymykuoppa<\/strong> = dimple<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymi\u00f6<\/strong> [\u02c8hymi\u00f8\u031e] = emoticon, smiley \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymin\u00e4<\/strong> [\u02c8hymin\u00e6] = a hum<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymist\u00e4<\/strong> [\u02c8hymis\u0320t\u00e6(\u0294)] = to hum<\/li>\n<li><strong>hymistell\u00e4<\/strong> [\u02c8hymis\u0320\u02ccte\u031el\u02d0\u00e6(\u0294)] = to hum, to praise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is <strong>hym\u00e4ht\u00e4\u00e4<\/strong> a particularly Finnish way of smiling?<\/p>\n<p>Are there any other languages in which the words smile and hum are connected?<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the English word <strong>smile<\/strong> comes from Middle English <em>smilen<\/em> (to smile), from Old Norse <em>*sm\u00edla<\/em> (to smile), from Proto-Germanic <em>*sm\u012blijan\u0105<\/em> (to smile), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*smey-<\/em> (to laugh, be glad, wonder) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/smile#English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>In Old English a word for to smile was <em>smearcian<\/em>, which comes from Proto-Germanic <em>*smar\u014dn\u0105<\/em> (to mock, scoff at, deride), which possibly comes from <em>*sm\u012blijan\u0105<\/em> (to smile), from Proto-Indo-European <em>*smey-<\/em> (to laugh, etc) [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/smearcian#Old_English\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>English words from the same root include <strong>smirk<\/strong>, <strong>smear<\/strong>, <strong>admire<\/strong>, <strong>marvel<\/strong>, <strong>miracle<\/strong>, and the name <strong>Miranda<\/strong>  [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Category:English_terms_derived_from_the_Proto-Indo-European_root_*(s)mey-\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the Finnish words that I learnt recently and really like is hymy [\u02c8hymy] which means smile. Apparently it is imitative of the short humming sound associated with smiling. In fact, it\u2019s difficult to say without smiling [source]. Related words include: hymyt\u00e4 = to smile hymyill\u00e4 = to smile, beam, smirk, grin hymyilytt\u00e4\u00e4 = [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,109,10,26,33,44,45,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-finnish","category-language","category-middle-english","category-old-english-aenglisc","category-proto-germanic","category-proto-indo-european","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003","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=23003"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23006,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23003\/revisions\/23006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}