{"id":539,"date":"2007-11-14T21:13:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/14\/twmpath\/"},"modified":"2007-11-14T21:13:34","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T20:13:34","slug":"twmpath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; twmpath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <strong>twmpath<\/strong> (\/t\u028ampa\u03b8\/), is the Welsh word for a tump, hump, hummock, tussock or mound. It is also refers to a type of barn dance, which is sort of the Welsh equivalent of an Irish ceili.<\/p>\n<p>The English word tump (a mound or hillock) might come from twmpath, though the dictionaries I&#8217;ve checked give it&#8217;s origin as unknown.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applewarrior.com\/celticwell\/ejournal\/beltane\/wales.htm\">this site<\/a>, there was a tradition in Wales for people gather on the <em>twmpath chwarae<\/em> (lit. &#8220;tump for playing&#8221;) or village green in the evenings to dance and play various sports, usually starting on May Day. A fiddler or harpist would sit and play on a mound in the middle of the green and people would dance around them.<\/p>\n<p>Other uses of this word include <em>twmpath gwadd<\/em>, mole hill, and <em>twmpath cyflymder<\/em> or speed bump, a traffic calming measure sometimes called a &#8216;sleeping policeman&#8217; in English. What are such things called in your language?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, twmpath (\/t\u028ampa\u03b8\/), is the Welsh word for a tump, hump, hummock, tussock or mound. It is also refers to a type of barn dance, which is sort of the Welsh equivalent of an Irish ceili. The English word tump (a mound or hillock) might come from twmpath, though the dictionaries I&#8217;ve checked give [&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-539","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\/539","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=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}