drako

The enjoyable word of the chapter, and one where Esperanto's neutrality creates a problem worth knowing about.

One word, two animals. The European drako of fabeloj is a winged, hoarding, fire-breathing reptile that knights are sent to kill. The Chinese dragon - lóng - is long, wingless, benevolent, associated with rain and rivers and imperial authority, and nobody kills it. Esperanto uses drako for both, which is fine until you are translating, at which point the picture in the reader's head is wrong. Writers who need the distinction say ĉina drako, or borrow longo outright. The same argument runs in English and has never been settled there either.

The suffixes do good work here. Drakido is a young dragon, with -id-, the offspring suffix - the same one that turns kato into katido (kitten) and reĝo into reĝido (a king's child). Drakino is a female dragon, and drakumi would be to behave like one. Drakforma is dragon-shaped.

Capitalised, Drako is the northern constellation Draco, which coils between the two Bears - so this chapter gives you two constellations, Drako and la Virgulino, from opposite ends of the sky.