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Translation

stop (bus or tram stop)

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from halti plus the place suffix -ej-. Halti comes from German halten, to stop or hold, the same verb behind the international command halt.

Origin
German
Root
halten
English cognates
halt

Examples

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We waited for the bus at the stop.

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The next stop is in front of the school.

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She got off the bus at the last stop.

Two pieces you already have. Halti at rank 377 is to stop. The suffix -- names the place where something happens: from , o from , from . So a is a stopping place, and in practice that means a bus stop or a tram stop.

Where the fence sits against . Stacio at rank 1,338 is a station: a scheduled point on a line, usually with a building, and is that building. A needs nothing but a pole and a sign. So the aŭtobuso calls at a (bushaltejo if you want to be explicit), and the train calls at a .

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This word is part of lesson 49.