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Translation

inhabitant, resident

Word origin

Not a borrowing at all. It is built inside Esperanto from loĝi, which came from French loger, from Frankish laubja, a shelter of leaves. English lodge and lodger grew from the same Frankish word.

Origin
Built in Esperanto, on a Frankish root
Root
en + loĝ + ant + o
English cognates
lodge, lodger, lodging

Examples

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The town has a hundred thousand inhabitants.

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Every inhabitant of the village knows the others.

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The inhabitants of the island live by the sea.

Take it apart and it says exactly what it means. En is in, loĝi at rank 402 is to dwell, -ant- makes the one who is doing it, and -o makes that a noun. An is a currently-dwelling-in person. Four pieces, no dictionary needed, and the participial nominals article covers the middle two in full.

The tense is not decoration. -ant- is the present participle, so an lives there now. Enloĝinto is a former resident and enloĝonto is somebody about to move in. English needs a clause for both of those. This is the single best argument for learning the participle table properly: it turns three English phrases into two extra letters.

Write the hat. needs its ĝ. Hatless is a real and quite different word, logi, to lure or entice, so enlogi would be to lure somebody in and would be the one doing the luring. In the x-system you write enlogxanto and everybody reads it correctly; what you must not do is drop the letter altogether.

And it is not a civitano. A citizen is a legal status you hold whether or not you are at home; an is simply whoever is living there. A city counts its ; a state counts its . The plain loĝanto without the - means the same thing and is commoner in speech, but the corpus prefers the fuller form and so does officialdom.

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This word is part of lesson 57.