{"id":407,"date":"2007-06-07T20:49:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/07\/moron\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T20:49:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T19:49:05","slug":"moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word <em>moron<\/em>, which means carrots, is an example of a false friend (<em>cyfaill anwir<\/em>?). The word for carrot is <em>moronen<\/em>, one of a small group of Welsh words that become shorter in the plural. Confusingly, the English word moron, which comes from the Greek for &#8216;foolish, dull&#8217;, has been borrowed into Welsh and has the same meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more Welsh\/English false friends that I&#8217;ve noticed recently. Some look the same as English words, but are pronounced differently, so are only false friends in writing.<\/p>\n<p><em>pan<\/em> = when (pan is <em>padell<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em> pant<\/em> = hollow (to pant is <em>dyhefod<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em>dim<\/em> = nothing (dim is <em>p\u0175l<\/em> or <em>aneglur<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em>mud<\/em> = mute (mud is <em>mwd<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em>hurt<\/em> = silly (hurt is <em>dolur<\/em> (n) or <em>dolurio<\/em> (vb))<br \/>\n<em>hen<\/em> = old (hen is  <em>i\u00e2r<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em>brain<\/em> = crows (brain is <em>ymennydd<\/em>)<br \/>\n<em>nod <\/em>= aim (nod is <em>amnaid<\/em> (n) or <em>amneidio<\/em> (vb))<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Welsh word moron, which means carrots, is an example of a false friend (cyfaill anwir?). The word for carrot is moronen, one of a small group of Welsh words that become shorter in the plural. Confusingly, the English word moron, which comes from the Greek for &#8216;foolish, dull&#8217;, has been borrowed into Welsh and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","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\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}