Translation
wing
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Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from flugi ('to fly') plus the instrument suffix -il-, so a wing is literally the tool for flying. The root flugi comes from German fliegen, which shares an ancestor with English fly.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation, root from German
- Root
- flugi + -il-
- English cognates
- fly, flight
Examples
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The bird broke one wing.
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Aeroplanes have two big wings.
oj .
Without wings we cannot fly.
is the affix machine at its clearest: flug + -- + -o, the thing you fly with. The same suffix gives (aviation-tool, an aeroplane) and (computing-tool). Learn one and you can read all three without a dictionary.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 3: flugilo, taksio, baki and 7 more words.