Translation
to dig
Word origin
From Latin fossa, a ditch, and the verb fodere, 'to dig', whose participle fossus gave the noun. The same root reached English through French in fosse and fossil, a thing dug up.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- fossa
- English cognates
- fosse, fossil, fossick
Examples
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The dog dug a hole in the garden.
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They dug the ground all day long.
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He digs the field with a simple tool.
takes an object, and Esperanto lets you choose which one. You can dig the thing you are removing ( ) or the thing you are creating ( ), exactly as English digs both the garden and a hole. Both are correct; the second is the one learners forget is allowed.
The derivations are the useful part. A spade is a o, by the tool suffix --, and it is one of the cleanest examples of that suffix in the language. An excavation is a o, a ditch is a foso, and to dig something up is elfosi - which is also the ordinary word for archaeology's business, so elfosaĵoj are the finds.
Keep it clear of its near neighbours in the ear: is to bungle, is to melt, is to fall. None are related to . Esperanto carries a great many short roots of this shape and they crowd each other, so the vowel is doing all the work.
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