{"id":7691,"date":"2012-10-04T11:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7691"},"modified":"2012-10-04T11:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T10:07:57","slug":"a-foreboding-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7691","title":{"rendered":"A foreboding sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night when I went out the sky was dark with very low clouds, and I expected it to rain at any moment. It did start raining while I was outside, but fortunately I was inside by the time the heavy rain arrived. I said to a friend that the sky had looked decidedly foreboding. He agreed, and we wondered how you would say this in the past tense if you use forebode as a verb &#8211; e.g. the sky foreboded\/forebod\/forebad\/forebid rain. It&#8217;s not a word I use every day so I wasn&#8217;t sure. Now I know that it&#8217;s foreboded.<\/p>\n<p>To forebode means to warn of or indicate (an event, result, etc.) in advance; to have an intuition or premonition of (an event) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/forebode\">source<\/a>]. Fore comes from the Old English prefix <em>fore-<\/em> (before), from the Proto-Indo-European root <em>*per-<\/em> (forward, through), and bode from the Old English word <em>bodian<\/em> from <em>boda<\/em> (messenger) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oed.com\/view\/Entry\/20888#eid17115705\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>Fore comes from the same root as the Latin words <em>pro<\/em> (before, for, on behalf of), <em>prae<\/em> (before) and <em>per<\/em> (through, for) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=fore\">source<\/a>], and related words in other languages.<\/p>\n<p>I like the word bode &#8211; you could say that something bodes without specifying whether it bodes well or ill, it just bodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night when I went out the sky was dark with very low clouds, and I expected it to rain at any moment. It did start raining while I was outside, but fortunately I was inside by the time the heavy rain arrived. I said to a friend that the sky had looked decidedly foreboding. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691","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=7691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}