{"id":63,"date":"2006-05-18T17:00:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/18\/word-of-the-day-glisser\/"},"modified":"2006-05-18T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T16:00:50","slug":"word-of-the-day-glisser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; glisser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/glisser.mp3\">glisser<\/a>, verb = to slide, slip, glide<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of usage<\/strong><br \/>\nle beateau glissait sur les eaux = the boat glided over the water<br \/>\nils gliss\u00e8rent le long de la pente dans le ravin = they slid down the slope into the gully<br \/>\nle voleur leur a gliss\u00e9 entre les mains = the thief slipped through their fingers<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\nglissade = slide, slip, skid<br \/>\nglissant = slippery<br \/>\nglissoire = (ice\/snow) slide<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t an particularly reason for slipping this word in today &#8211; I just like the sound of it.<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent words in Irish are also interesting: <em>sleamhnaigh<\/em> (to slide, slip, slither), <em>sleamhain<\/em> (slippery, smooth, sleek), as are the Welsh words: <em>llithro<\/em> (to glide, slide, slip, skid, slither) and <em>llithrig<\/em> (slippery)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>glisser, verb = to slide, slip, glide Examples of usage le beateau glissait sur les eaux = the boat glided over the water ils gliss\u00e8rent le long de la pente dans le ravin = they slid down the slope into the gully le voleur leur a gliss\u00e9 entre les mains = the thief slipped through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","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=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}