{"id":3733,"date":"2010-10-22T18:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2010-10-22T18:26:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:26:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-sny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; Sny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard today&#8217;s word <strong>sny<\/strong> in the Czech phrase <em>hezk\u00fd sny<\/em> and from the context I thought that it meant &#8220;sleep well&#8221; or something similar. I knew that <em>hezk\u00fd<\/em> meant beautiful or pretty and assumed that <em>sny<\/em> meant sleep.<\/p>\n<p>When I finally got round to looking it up, I discovered that it means &#8220;nice dreams&#8221;. <em>Hezk\u00fd<\/em> has a number of meanings, including pretty, seemly, sweet, attractive, becoming, bonny, comely, fine, neat, endearing, fair, good-looking, handsome, nice, smart, good, lovely, and so on.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sny<\/em> means dreams or moonshine, and is the plural of <em>sen<\/em>, which also means ambition, vision or sleep. The verb, to dream, is <em>sn\u00edt<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any interesting ways of wishing some one a good night?<\/p>\n<p>One I know is &#8220;Good night, sleep tight, hope the bedbugs don&#8217;t bite&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard today&#8217;s word sny in the Czech phrase hezk\u00fd sny and from the context I thought that it meant &#8220;sleep well&#8221; or something similar. I knew that hezk\u00fd meant beautiful or pretty and assumed that sny meant sleep. When I finally got round to looking it up, I discovered that it means &#8220;nice dreams&#8221;. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","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=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}