{"id":657,"date":"2008-04-25T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/25\/clustfeinio\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:29:52","slug":"clustfeinio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; clustfeinio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word <em>clustfeinio<\/em> yesterday while reading a novel in Welsh. At first I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what it meant, apart from having something to do with ears, <em>clustiau<\/em>. From the context though I was able to guess its meaning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWy&#8217;n clustfeinio am bob gwich a sgrech.<br \/>\n<em>I&#8217;m [verbing] to every squeak and shriek.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From its position in the sentence, you can tell that <em>clustfeinio<\/em> is a verb. Can you guess what it means? The character who says this sentence is lying in bed trying to get to sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Related words include:<\/p>\n<p>clust &#8211; ear<br \/>\nclustdlws &#8211; ear-ring (lit. &#8220;ear brooch\/jewel&#8221;)<br \/>\nclusten &#8211; (ear) lobe<br \/>\nclustew \/ clustrwm &#8211; hard of hearing (lit. &#8220;fat ear&#8221; \/ &#8220;heavy ear&#8221;)<br \/>\nclustfyddar &#8211; deaf<br \/>\nclustiog &#8211; eared<br \/>\nclustog &#8211; pillow, cushion<br \/>\nclustowlad &#8211; buffer-state (lit. &#8220;pillow state&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across the word clustfeinio yesterday while reading a novel in Welsh. At first I wasn&#8217;t quite sure what it meant, apart from having something to do with ears, clustiau. From the context though I was able to guess its meaning: Wy&#8217;n clustfeinio am bob gwich a sgrech. I&#8217;m [verbing] to every squeak and [&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-657","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\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}