Translation
native, innate, from birth
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Word origin
Not borrowed at all: assembled inside Esperanto from the preposition de ('from'), the root nask- ('birth', itself from Latin nasci, to be born) and the adjective ending -a. Something denaska is something you have had from birth.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on a Latin root
- Root
- de + nask- + -a
- English cognates
- natal, nascent
Examples
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She is a native Esperanto speaker.
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Their native language is very difficult.
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Native-speaker children learn two languages at the same time.
A clean example of how Esperanto builds rather than borrows. plus nask- plus -a gives from-birth, and the whole meaning is readable without a dictionary the first time you meet it. The term carries weight in the movement: a - is one of the thousand-odd people raised speaking the language at home, and denaskismo is the practice of doing so.
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Word family
Words built on denaska with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- denaskulonoun
native speaker (from birth)
denaska-ul-: a person who has had it from birth
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 17, lesson 11: denaska, ekspedicio, gitaro and 7 more words.