Translation
garage (for keeping a vehicle); repair shop
Word origin
From French garage, from the verb garer, to shelter or to dock something out of the way. Garer itself is Germanic in origin, from the same family that gave English ware in beware and, through Old French, guard.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- garer
- English cognates
- garage, guard, beware
Examples
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I put the car into the garage.
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Our garage is too small for two cars.
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The lorry is waiting in front of the garage.
A garage is not an age. The word ends in what looks exactly like -aĝ- plus -o, and aĝo is a real Esperanto word meaning age, so the eye offers you gar- + aĝo. Refuse it. There is no -aĝ- suffix in Esperanto at all - aĝo is a free root, not an affix - and gar- means nothing. is one root borrowed whole from French.
It is worth having a name for this class, because the language is full of it. , a cage, is not k- + aĝo. is not a road's age. is a storey and has no - in it. In each case the ĝ is part of a French or Italian import that arrived intact, and the resemblance to the affix system is a coincidence the spelling cannot help. The genuine suffix that looks nearly identical is -- with the accent the other way up, which makes a concrete thing out of a root: o food, news. One hat, two very different jobs, and a reason to read the hats carefully - orthography and punctuation has the full set.
Two senses, as in English. The place you keep the car, and the place you take it when it stops. A o is the mechanic; garaĝi is to garage a vehicle, though covers ordinary parking.
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