{"id":3220,"date":"2010-07-15T15:32:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2010-07-15T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:32:36","slug":"wellgylchu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Wellgylchu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I heard them discussing <em>wellgylchu<\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiocymru\/safle\/eleriadaf\/\">Radio Cymru<\/a> in reference to making jewellery from buttons and other things that would be normally thrown away.<\/p>\n<p>The usual Welsh word of recycling is <em>ailgylchu<\/em>, which is made up of the words <em>ail<\/em> (second, re-) and <em>cylchu<\/em> (to circle), while <em>wellgylchu<\/em> begins with <em>gwell<\/em> (enhanced, better, preferable), so could be translated as something like &#8220;bettercycling&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Have you come across a similar word in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I heard them discussing wellgylchu on Radio Cymru in reference to making jewellery from buttons and other things that would be normally thrown away. The usual Welsh word of recycling is ailgylchu, which is made up of the words ail (second, re-) and cylchu (to circle), while wellgylchu begins with gwell (enhanced, better, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}