Translation
fence, barrier
Word origin
Built in Esperanto from bari ('to block, to bar') plus the tool suffix -il-. The root came from French barre, a bar of uncertain and probably Gaulish origin.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation on a French root
- Root
- bari + -il-
- English cognates
- bar, barrier, barrage
Examples
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The dog jumped over the fence.
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They built a new fence around the garden.
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The sheep cannot get out, because the fence is high.
This one is a genuine seam, so pull it: is to block, -- names the instrument that does a job, and a is therefore the blocking-thing. The suffix is the same one in (a locking-thing, a key) and o (a sewing-thing, a needle). Once you trust --, half the concrete vocabulary of Esperanto stops needing to be memorised.
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