{"id":16311,"date":"2006-04-09T22:33:32","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/04\/09\/pogonip-1.html"},"modified":"2006-04-09T22:33:32","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T05:33:32","slug":"pogonip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/04\/09\/pogonip-1\/","title":{"rendered":"pogonip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There's a park area in Santa Cruz called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us\/pr\/parksrec\/parks\/pogo.html\">Pogonip<\/a>, but it turns out the word itself refers to \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordreference.com\/definition\/pogonip\">a dense winter fog containing ice particles<\/a>,\" making it another in a series of nifty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower\/w.html\">weather words<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>MW11 says it's from the Shoshone word \"pa\u03b3inappih,\" meaning \"cloud.\"<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it turns out this word isn't new to me; I had a vague idea it looked familiar, so I searched old email and discovered it was proposed as a fictionary word in a long-running game of email fictionary at least three times in a four-year period, but someone knew what it meant so it was never used.  But still, I like it enough to post it here, and the definition here is slightly more detailed than the last one I saw, and at any rate the etymology (which I think is cool) was previously unknown to me.<\/p>\n<p>Here's a question: how many other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.native-languages.org\/shoshone.htm\">Shoshone<\/a> words have become English words?  Are there any common ones?  I have no idea.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a park area in Santa Cruz called Pogonip, but it turns out the word itself refers to &#8220;a dense winter fog containing ice particles,&#8221; making it another in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}