Translation
flag
Word origin
An international borrowing of the Germanic word seen in English flag, German Flagge and Dutch vlag. The ultimate origin is uncertain; the usual account calls it imitative, from the sound of cloth flapping in the wind.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- flag
- English cognates
- flag
Examples
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A green flag hung above the door.
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The ship carried a large white flag.
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Every country has its own flag.
is the cloth itself. Esperanto also has for a formal standard or banner carried on a pole, but for national flags and for the green star flag of the language movement is the everyday word. To fly one is i , and a flagpole is flagstango.
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