Translation
budget
Word origin
From English budget, which came from Old French bougette, a little leather bag, a diminutive of bouge, from Latin bulga. The Chancellor of the Exchequer carried the nation's accounts to Parliament in a bag, so opening the bag came to mean announcing the accounts, and the bag's name became the accounts themselves.
- Origin
- English, from Old French
- Root
- bougette
- English cognates
- budget, bulge, bilge
Examples
.
Our budget for the year is small.
.
The government presented a new budget.
, .
We have to economise, because the budget is not large.
One root, and no -- in it. This is worth saying out loud, because
looks exactly like a diminutive: buĝ- plus the small-thing suffix
--. It is not. There is no buĝo in Esperanto, and the word arrived from
English in one piece. The resemblance is a coincidence with a lovely explanation
behind it, which is the next paragraph.
The little bag really is in there, just not in . English budget
is Old French bougette, a small leather bag, from Latin bulga. The
diminutive is genuine; it simply happened in French seven hundred years ago
rather than in Esperanto. The chain from bag to spreadsheet runs through
Westminster: the Chancellor brought the year's accounts to the Commons in a
leather bag, "opening the budget" meant taking the papers out, and within a
century the word had stopped meaning the bag at all. Esperanto inherited the
end of that story and none of the middle.
How it behaves. Buĝeta for budgetary, buĝeti for the verb to budget,
transbuĝeta for over budget. It keeps the company you would expect:
mono at 318,
financo at 1,609,
elspezi at 1,145 for spending and
ŝpari at 1,296 for saving, with
kalkuli at 817 doing the arithmetic. A
registaro has one, a household has one, and this
course has one, which is why the art on these pages is drawn rather than
photographed.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 59.