{"id":72,"date":"2006-05-29T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T16:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/29\/word-of-the-day-garganta\/"},"modified":"2006-05-29T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T16:56:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-garganta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; garganta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>garganta<\/strong>, noun = throat, gullet, neck, instep, singing voice, gorge, ravine, narrow pass, shaft<\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples of usage<\/strong><br \/>\nmojar la garganta = to wet one&#8217;s whistle (to have a drink)<br \/>\nle tengo atravesado en la garganta = he sticks in my gullet<br \/>\ntener el agua a la garanta = to be in great danger (lit. &#8220;to have water in the throat&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related words<\/strong><br \/>\ngargantear, verb = to warble, quaver, trill<br \/>\ngarganteo, noun = warble, quaver, trill<\/p>\n<p>This is a word with an interesting range of meanings. You can see how it&#8217;s meaning has been metaphorically extended. This is a very common way for words to acquire new meanings. Over time, the orginal metaphorical meanings are forgetten and the words become dead metaphors.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Unfolding of Language<\/em>, Guy Deutscher claims that metaphor is main way we use to describe abstract concepts. Even such every day words as <em>have<\/em>, <em>in<\/em>, <em>behind<\/em> and <em>front <\/em>were once metaphors. In many cases, the meanings of words for parts of the body are extended to embrace abstractions. Front, for example, originally meant &#8216;brow&#8217; or &#8216;forehead&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>garganta, noun = throat, gullet, neck, instep, singing voice, gorge, ravine, narrow pass, shaft Examples of usage mojar la garganta = to wet one&#8217;s whistle (to have a drink) le tengo atravesado en la garganta = he sticks in my gullet tener el agua a la garanta = to be in great danger (lit. &#8220;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-spanish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","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=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}