Translation
to fish, to angle
Word origin
Built from fiŝo, the Germanic fish word, and kapti, from Latin captare, to try to seize. Fish-catching, said in the order Esperanto always says it.
- Origin
- compound of fiŝo and kapti
- Root
- Fisch + captare
- English cognates
- fish, capture, catch
Examples
.
He fishes in the river every day.
.
We went fishing at the lake.
.
The sea is too rough to fish today.
English turns the noun into a verb and thinks nothing of it: you fish for fish.
Esperanto cannot do that, because i would have to mean something vague like
"to do fish", and the language does not like vague. So it names the action
instead - -, fish-catching - and the meaning is exact from the first
time you see it.
The head is on the right, as always in compound words:
the thing you are doing is , catching, and - says what. Change the
first root and you change the prey, which is how birdokapti and balenkapti
work too.
Then the suffixes do their usual multiplication, and this root is one of the neatest demonstrations of it in the language:
| Word | Pieces | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
o | + -- (a person) | a fisherman |
o | + -- (a tool) | a fishing rod |
o | + -ad- (an action) | fishing, angling |
o | + -- (a place) | a fishing ground |
Four words for the price of one root and four suffixes you already know. That is the whole argument for the affix system, compressed into a single afternoon by the water.
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