{"id":6560,"date":"2012-01-26T14:32:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2012-01-26T14:32:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T14:32:33","slug":"paid-a-gwgu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6560","title":{"rendered":"Paid a gwgu!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt the Welsh expression <strong>Paid a gwgu!<\/strong> [pa\u026ad a \u02c8g\u028ag\u0268] from friends in Aberystwyth yesterday. It means &#8216;Don&#8217;t frown\/glower\/scowl!&#8217;. I like the sound of <em>gwgu<\/em>, which doesn&#8217;t seem like a frowny word to me &#8211; it&#8217;s more like a baby&#8217;s babbling. Related words include <em>gwg<\/em> (frown) and <em>gwgus<\/em> (frowning).<\/p>\n<p>Words for frown in Irish, <em>grainc<\/em> and <em>gruig<\/em>, are possibly related to the Welsh word <em>gwg<\/em>. Other words frowny Irish words include <em>p\u00faic<\/em> and <em>m\u00edst\u00e1<\/em>. The verbal expression is <em>grain\/gruig a chur ort f\u00e9in<\/em> (to put a frown on oneself), and an idiomatic way of saying, for example, &#8216;he frowned at me&#8217; is <em>bh\u00ed muc ar gach mala aige chugam<\/em> (&#8220;he had a pig on each eyebrow to me&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt the Welsh expression Paid a gwgu! [pa\u026ad a \u02c8g\u028ag\u0268] from friends in Aberystwyth yesterday. It means &#8216;Don&#8217;t frown\/glower\/scowl!&#8217;. I like the sound of gwgu, which doesn&#8217;t seem like a frowny word to me &#8211; it&#8217;s more like a baby&#8217;s babbling. Related words include gwg (frown) and gwgus (frowning). Words for frown in Irish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,127,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-irish","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560","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=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}