{"id":3363,"date":"2010-08-10T10:04:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2010-08-10T10:04:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T09:04:24","slug":"winter-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Winter climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/zimolez.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"210\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Zimolez (Lonicera periclymenum - Common honeysuckle - Zimolez ov\u00edjiv\u00fd)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The word <em>zimolez<\/em>, which is honeysuckle in Czech, came up the other day during a conversation with a Czech friend. It comes from <em>zima<\/em> (winter) and <em>l\u00e9zt<\/em> (to climb, crawl, creep), so could be translated as &#8220;winter climber&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Other interesting words that came up include <em>pl\u0161\u00edk<\/em> (doormouse), <em>smr\u0161\u0165<\/em> (tornado) <em>brblat<\/em> (to grizzle, beef, grouch, mutter) and <em>\u017ebrblat<\/em> (to mutter to oneself). The root <em>smr\u0161\u0165<\/em> also appears in words related to shrinking and contracting, such as <em>smr\u0161tit<\/em> (to shrink), <em>smr\u0161t\u011bn\u00fd<\/em> (contracted, shrunk) and <em>smr\u0161\u0165ovac\u00ed f\u00f3lie<\/em> (shrink wrap).<\/p>\n<p>What delicious consonant clusters!<\/p>\n<p>The English name honeysuckle comes from the Old English <em>hunigsuge<\/em> (honey-suck). <del datetime=\"2010-08-11T15:46:29+00:00\">An alternative name is Eglantine, which comes from the Old French <em>aiglent<\/em> (dog rose), from the Vulgar Latin <em>aquilentus<\/em> (rich in prickles), from the Latin <em>aculeus<\/em> (spine, prickle), a diminutive of <em>acus<\/em> (needle)<\/del><\/p>\n<p>Names for honeysuckle in other languages include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>German: Gei\u00dfblatt (goat leaf)<\/li>\n<li>French: Ch\u00e8vrefeuille (goat leaf)<\/li>\n<li>Irish: F\u00e9ithleann (vein ale ?)<\/li>\n<li>Italian: Caprifoglio (goat leaf)<\/li>\n<li>Latin: Lonicera<\/li>\n<li>Spanish: Madreselva (mother jungle)<\/li>\n<li>Welsh: Gwyddfid (wild hedge ?) or Llaeth y gaseg (mare&#8217;s milk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word zimolez, which is honeysuckle in Czech, came up the other day during a conversation with a Czech friend. It comes from zima (winter) and l\u00e9zt (to climb, crawl, creep), so could be translated as &#8220;winter climber&#8221;. Other interesting words that came up include pl\u0161\u00edk (doormouse), smr\u0161\u0165 (tornado) brblat (to grizzle, beef, grouch, mutter) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,107,111,116,126,127,10,15,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-inuktitut","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","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=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}