{"id":615,"date":"2008-02-26T21:27:14","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/26\/snasail\/"},"modified":"2008-02-26T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T20:27:14","slug":"snasail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; snasail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, <em>snasail<\/em>, is Scottish Gaelic for accurate, alright, brave, decent, elegant, lopped, neat or ornamented. When I stumbled upon it in my Gaelic dictionary, I thought at first that it said &#8216;snailsail&#8217;, which conjured up an image of sailing snail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A related words include:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>snasmhor<\/em> &#8211; neat, smart or elegant<br \/>\n<em>snas-bhriathrach<\/em> &#8211; eloquent, oratorical, rhetorical (briathrach = eloquent, loquacious, talkative)<br \/>\n<em>snas-chainnt<\/em> &#8211; philology, rhetoric (cainnt = language, speech)<br \/>\n<em>snasachadh<\/em> &#8211; analysis, carving, elegance, make-up, ornamenting, polishing<\/p>\n<p>The root of these words is <em>snas<\/em>, which means aspect, colour, decency, elegance, gloss, perfectness, polish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word, snasail, is Scottish Gaelic for accurate, alright, brave, decent, elegant, lopped, neat or ornamented. When I stumbled upon it in my Gaelic dictionary, I thought at first that it said &#8216;snailsail&#8217;, which conjured up an image of sailing snail. A related words include: snasmhor &#8211; neat, smart or elegant snas-bhriathrach &#8211; eloquent, oratorical, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,56,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-scottish-gaelic","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}