glui in Esperanto: to glue, to stick (verb)

Translation

to glue, to stick

Word origin

From French glu and Latin gluten, a sticky substance. The noun gluo came first and the verb was formed from it in the ordinary Esperanto way.

Origin: Latin
Root: gluten
English cognates: glue, gluten, agglutinate

Examples

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The child glued the picture onto the wall.

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We will glue the two pieces.

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She stuck paper on the window.

The u belongs to the root, not to the grammar. -u is the imperative ending in Esperanto, so a verb whose stem ends in u looks briefly alarming: is some form of a root gl-? No. The root is glu-, from Latin gluten, and the -i is the ordinary infinitive ending stuck on the end of it. The imperative is , with two us, and it is pronounced as two syllables - GLU-u. Esperanto never merges doubled vowels, which is the rule that saves the whole system here.

The same shape turns up in from (to flow), from (to enjoy) and bruu from brui (to make a noise). Once you have seen one you have seen them all.

Transitive, with an - partner. takes an object: you glue something. If the thing sticks by itself, that is i - is , the paper stuck to the table. This is the -- / -- contrast doing what it always does, and gluing is one of the clearest places to feel it.

The noun and the neighbours. Gluo is the glue itself, glua is sticky, algluiĝema is the word for a person who will not leave you alone. Nearby: fiksi to fasten, i to join, and - in the other direction - rompi, which is what you were mending in the first place.

Related words

papero

paper

bildo

picture, image

fiksi

to fix, to fasten, to set

muro

wall

rompi

to break, to smash

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