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Translation

bouquet; bunch of flowers

Word origin

From French bouquet, which began as a Norman and Picard bosquet, a little wood, the diminutive of bosc, a wood or thicket. A bunch of flowers is a small copse you can carry. The same bosc gives English bosky and, at a distance, bush.

Origin
French
Root
bosquet
English cognates
bouquet, bosky, bush

Examples

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She brought me a bouquet of white roses.

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On the table stood a large bouquet.

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The boy carried a bouquet to his mother.

One root, no seam. is four syllables that look invitingly cuttable, and every cut is wrong. There is no -ed- suffix in Esperanto - the -ed- a botanist writes in a family name is one of the technical formants the unofficial affixes article parks on the specialist shelf, not something you attach to roots. And the buk- you can see is not the buko you already know, which is a buckle. A has nothing to do with fastening anything. The whole thing is one borrowed root, and the word-building rule applies: cut only where the meaning comes out right.

What it is made of. and are both current, and the quantity article explains the choice: treats the bouquet as a measure of flower, treats it as a bunch made out of particular flowers. Neither will confuse anybody. o is a posy, florbukedo spells out what a plain already implies, and bukedi is not a verb.

The other bouquet. French lent the word twice, and Esperanto took both senses: is the smell that rises out of a glass. That is a straight metaphor from the flowers and it needs no separate root. If you want scent in general the word is aromo or .

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This word is part of lesson 59.