{"id":7894,"date":"2012-11-20T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2012-11-20T18:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T18:44:16","slug":"spontus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7894","title":{"rendered":"Spontus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spontus<\/strong> is a Breton word I learnt recently that means scary or terrible, as in <em>spontus eo an amzer hiziv<\/em> (the weather is terrible today). It doesn&#8217;t sound like it comes from a Welsh or Cornish root, and I wondered where it came from.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/br.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/spontus\">Wikeriadur<\/a> <em>spontus<\/em> comes from the word <em>spont<\/em> (to faint\/wake with terror) plus the suffix <em>-us<\/em>. Unfortuantely it doesn&#8217;t say where <em>spont<\/em> comes from. Does any one have any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spontus is a Breton word I learnt recently that means scary or terrible, as in spontus eo an amzer hiziv (the weather is terrible today). It doesn&#8217;t sound like it comes from a Welsh or Cornish root, and I wondered where it came from. According to the Wikeriadur spontus comes from the word spont (to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","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\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}