Translation
to swallow
Word origin
From Latin glutire, to swallow, the same root that gives English glutton and the medical term deglutition. The Romance descendants are all still visible, from Italian inghiottire to French engloutir.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- glutire
- English cognates
- glutton, deglutition
Examples
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The boy swallowed the medicine with water.
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I cannot swallow, because my throat is ill.
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The big fish swallowed the small one.
is the physical act at the back of the throat, and it is transitive: you swallow something. , , . It is not manĝi, which is the whole business of eating a meal, nor trinki, which is drinking. Swallowing is the one moment inside either of them.
The figurative uses transfer cleanly from English and cause no trouble. You can an insult, meaning you take it without answering back, and you can a book in an evening. is perfectly good Esperanto for the sea swallowing a ship.
Two derivations earn their keep. Gluto is a swallow in the countable sense, a mouthful: gluto , one gulp of water. And i, with the diminutive -et-, is to sip, which is a neater solution than English manages with its separate word.
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