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It’s rather cold here at the moment with daytime temperatures not much above freezing, and nighttime dropping to -10\u00b0C (14\u00b0F) or even -20\u00b0C (-4\u00b0F) in places. As a result, some of the snow that fell last week has frozen solid and been trampled down on pavements and ungritted back streets making them decidedly icey and slippery.<\/p>\n
I also have a cold at the moment, so I thought I’d look into how to say “I have a cold” in a number of languages. In French it’s “Je suis enrhum\u00e9” or “I am enrhumed”. Enrhum\u00e9<\/em> comes from rhume<\/em> (cold), which comes from the Old French reume<\/em>, from the Latin rheuma<\/em>, from the Greek rheuma<\/em> (stream, current, a flowing), from rhein<\/em> (to flow), from the Proto-Indo-European *sreu-<\/em> (to flow). The Proto-Indo-European *sreu-<\/em> is also the root of the Irish sruth<\/em> (stream, river), the Welsh ffrwd<\/em> (stream) and the Polish strumyk<\/em> (brook). [source<\/a>].<\/p>\n The Czech word for cold r\u00fdmu<\/em> appears to be spring from the same source – m\u00e1m r\u00fdmu<\/em> is “I have a cold” by the way – as does the English word rheumatism. You can also say jsem nachlazen\u00fd<\/em> for “I have a cold” in Czech, which has a similar structure to the French phrase – “I am colded” or something like that.<\/p>\n In Welsh you don’t have<\/em> a cold but rather a cold is on you: mae annwyd arna i<\/em>, and the other Celtic languages use the same structure, “Is cold on\/at me”: t\u00e1 slaghd\u00e1n orm<\/em> (Irish), tha ‘n cnatan orm<\/em> (Scottish Gaelic), ta feayraght\/mughane aym<\/em> (Manx).<\/p>\n In German “I have a cold” is Ich bin erk\u00e4ltet<\/em> (“I am becolded?”), with erk\u00e4ltet<\/em> coming from kalt<\/em> (cold).<\/p>\n In Mandarin Chinese you say \u6211\u611f\u5192\u4e86 (w\u01d2 g\u01cenm\u00e0o le) or “I catch cold [change of state particle]”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s rather cold here at the moment with daytime temperatures not much above freezing, and nighttime dropping to -10\u00b0C (14\u00b0F) or even -20\u00b0C (-4\u00b0F) in places. As a result, some of the snow that fell last week has frozen solid and been trampled down on pavements and ungritted back streets making them decidedly icey and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,99,104,107,111,116,118,127,10,15,23,56,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-greek","category-irish","category-language","category-latin","category-manx","category-scottish-gaelic","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","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=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}