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Translation

excursion, outing; day trip

Word origin

From Latin excursus, the past participle of excurrere, 'to run out', from ex- ('out') and currere ('to run'). A Roman excursus was a sortie or a raid out of camp; the word softened into a stroll out of town, and then into the coach trip.

Origin
Latin
Root
excurrere
English cognates
excursion, course, current

Examples

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The group went on an excursion to the mountains.

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Our day trip to the sea lasted the whole day.

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After the congress there was an excursion to the old town.

The other false seam of this band, and a harder one than kajero, because here both halves are genuinely Esperanto. - is a live prefix meaning former: o is an ex-husband, o an ex-president. And kurso is a real word meaning a course of study. Put them together and you get a perfectly well-formed Esperanto word meaning "a course somebody used to be on".

That is not what means. The - reading is wrong, and no amount of tidiness in the parse makes it right: came in from Latin excursus as one lump, prefix already fused, centuries before Zamenhof gave - a job. The Latin ex- in it does mean out, but it is out-running, not ex-anything.

So: two words in one band where both halves are real morphemes and both parses are false. The lesson is not to stop looking for joins. It is to check the meaning that falls out of the join, and to accept that a language which borrows from Latin will keep handing you Latin prefixes that look like Esperanto ones.

i is the verb, and ekskursanto the person on the trip. Most congresses run one.

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This word is part of lesson 40.