{"id":9629,"date":"2014-02-14T16:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=9629"},"modified":"2014-02-14T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T16:25:47","slug":"sumpf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=9629","title":{"rendered":"Sumpf"},"content":{"rendered":"

I discovered the wonderful German word Sumpf<\/strong> \/z\u028ampf\/ today while putting together les mots de la semaine<\/a> for this week from the French conversation group. One of the things that came in conversation was the word marsh, which is le marais<\/em> or le mar\u00e9cage<\/em> in French, and Sumpf<\/em> in German, which I noticed because there’s something about the combination of mpf in a word that just appeals to me. Are there particular letter combinations that appeal to you?<\/p>\n

Sumpf<\/strong> means marsh, morass, mud, bog, quagmire, mire, sump, and can also be used figuratively to refer to corruption, e.g. der Sumpf der Politik = the murky waters of politics. <\/p>\n

Related expressions include:<\/p>\n

– Sumpfland = marshland; swampland
\n– sumpfig = marshy; swampland
\n– Sumpfboden = marshy ground
\n– sumpfen = to live it up
\n– Sumpfdotterblume = marsh marigold
\n– Sumpfpflanze = marsh plant
\n– Sumpfgas = marsh gas
\n– Salzsumpf = salt marsh<\/p>\n

The word marsh comes from the Germanic base of mere<\/em> (sea, lake), which is cognate with the Latin mare<\/em>, and related words in many European languages; plus the suffix -ish<\/em> (of or belonging to a person or thing, of the nature or character of).<\/p>\n

Sources: Wiktionary<\/a>, Reverso<\/a>, OED<\/a>, bab.la dictionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I discovered the wonderful German word Sumpf \/z\u028ampf\/ today while putting together les mots de la semaine for this week from the French conversation group. One of the things that came in conversation was the word marsh, which is le marais or le mar\u00e9cage in French, and Sumpf in German, which I noticed because there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,111,116,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629","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=9629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}