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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