Translation
animal hide, pelt; fur
Word origin
From German Fell, the hide of an animal, a Germanic word related to English fell in the old sense of a skin and to Latin pellis. Esperanto's Germanic borrowings are a minority, and this is one of them.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Fell
- English cognates
- fell, pelt, pelisse
Examples
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The bear's pelt is thick and warm.
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They sold the animals' hides in the town.
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She covered the child with a soft fur.
and divide the job between them. is skin as living tissue - yours, an apple's, a drum's. is the skin taken off an animal with the hair still on it, so it is at once the coat the beast wears and the material the furrier sells. A leather hide with the hair stripped is , a third word again.
The reason to keep them apart is that the English words overlap freely and Esperanto's do not. "Skin" does the work of both; "hide", "pelt" and "fur" carve up 's territory in ways no two dictionaries agree on. Translate by what is physically there: hair on and off the animal is , hair off and tanned is , attached and alive is .
Derivations behave normally. o is a furrier, senfela is hairless in the specifically pelt-less sense, and felmantelo is a fur coat - a compound worth having, because is correct but nobody says it.
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