Translation
swan
Word origin
From Latin cygnus, from Greek kyknos. English gets cygnet and the constellation Cygnus from the same word, but its everyday swan is Germanic and unrelated.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- cygnus
- English cognates
- cygnet, Cygnus
Examples
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A white swan was swimming on the still lake.
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The swan has a long neck and big wings.
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The fairy tale about the young duckling who is really a swan pleases all children.
The c is the thing to get right. Esperanto c is always ts, so
is TSIG-no, not SIG-no and certainly not KIG-no. Get it wrong in the
direction of s and you have said signo, a sign,
which is a real word and a real ambiguity. This is the letter that catches
every English speaker at least once.
Andersen's duckling, and why the joke works in . La malbela
anasido is the standard title, and it is built rather than borrowed:
anaso is a duck, -- is the offspring suffix, and
anasido at rank 2,913 is therefore literally the
duck-child. The whole plot of the story
is a mislabelled --, which is a nicer piece of language than Andersen had
any right to expect. An actual young swan is a o.
Not a goose, not a duck. is a goose, a duck, a
swan, and Esperanto keeps them as three separate roots exactly as English does.
The cignokanto is the swan song, and it is a translation of the same
classical fiction English inherited - swans do not sing as they die, but the
word for the idea is worth having.
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