{"id":50,"date":"2006-05-02T20:44:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-02T19:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/02\/word-of-the-day-%d1%82%d1%83%d1%84%d0%bb%d1%8f\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T20:44:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-02T19:44:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-%d1%82%d1%83%d1%84%d0%bb%d1%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=50","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; \u0442\u0443\u0444\u043b\u044f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u0442\u0443\u0444\u043b\u044f (tuflja), noun = shoe<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s Russian lesson is about clothes and this word just appeals to me. It sounds a bit like &#8220;tooth fly&#8221; &#8211; my way of remembering it is to imagine my shoes being full of flies with big teeth. This is quite a strange image, but that helps it to stick in my memory.<\/p>\n<p>I also like the Welsh word for shoe &#8211; <em>esgid<\/em> &#8211; it sounds like skid, so to remember it, I think of people skidding around in their shoes. The word for a horseshoe is <em>pedol<\/em>, which conjures up images of horses pedalling bicycles.<\/p>\n<p>Anois t\u00e1 m\u00e9 ag dul n\u00edos m\u00f3 Gaeilge a fhoghlaim (Time to learn some more Irish now).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0442\u0443\u0444\u043b\u044f (tuflja), noun = shoe This week&#8217;s Russian lesson is about clothes and this word just appeals to me. It sounds a bit like &#8220;tooth fly&#8221; &#8211; my way of remembering it is to imagine my shoes being full of flies with big teeth. This is quite a strange image, but that helps it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,52,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-russian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","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=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}