{"id":8851,"date":"2013-07-05T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=8851"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:14:02","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:14:02","slug":"gwymona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=8851","title":{"rendered":"Gwymona"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Laver\"<\/p>\n

While putting together this week’s mots de la semaine<\/em><\/a>, some of the interesting words and phrases that come in the French conversation group I go to on Thursday evenings, I discovered the Welsh word gwymona<\/strong> [g\u028a\u0268\u02c8m\u0254na], which means “to gather seaweed (for fertilizer)” – an interesting and specific meaning.<\/p>\n

It comes from the word for seaweed, gwymon<\/em> and suggests that seaweed and the gathering of it was sufficiently important in Wales for there to be a verb for it.<\/p>\n

Are there a similar verbs in other languages?<\/p>\n

A type of seaweed known as laver (porphyra umbilicalis<\/em>) is sometimes eaten in Wales as a cold salad with lamb or mutton; heated and served with boiled bacon; or eaten in the form of laverbread (bara lawr<\/em>), which is made from laver that is boiled for several hours, then minced or pureed, mixed with oatmeal and fried. Traditionally laverbread was eaten for breakfast with cockles and bacon.<\/p>\n

Laver is far more commonly eaten in East Asia, especially in Japan, where it is known as \u6d77\u82d4 (nori), in Korea, where it’s called \uae40 (gim), and in China, where it’s known as \u7d2b\u83dc (z\u01d0c\u00e0i).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While putting together this week’s mots de la semaine, some of the interesting words and phrases that come in the French conversation group I go to on Thursday evenings, I discovered the Welsh word gwymona [g\u028a\u0268\u02c8m\u0254na], which means “to gather seaweed (for fertilizer)” – an interesting and specific meaning. It comes from the word for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851","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=8851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}