Translation
camel
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Word origin
From Latin camelus and Greek kamelos, both borrowed from a Semitic word - Hebrew gamal, Arabic jamal. It is one of the oldest travelling words in Europe, older than most of the languages that carry it.
- Origin
- Latin, from Semitic
- Root
- camelus
- English cognates
- camel
Examples
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A camel can walk for a long time without water.
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We saw camels in the desert.
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The camel carried a big bag on its back.
is the animal, either kind: the word covers the genus. If you need to
separate them, the one-humped Arabian camel is dromedaro and the two-humped
Bactrian is baktra .
A false seam, and a slightly odd one. The eye wants to read kam- plus
--. It should not, for a reason worth stating plainly: -- is not an
Esperanto suffix at all. Esperanto's neighbour Ido has one, and several
national languages have diminutives that look like it, but the official list of
Esperanto suffixes does not include --. The suffix a learner is actually
thinking of is --, the tool suffix, and is emphatically not a
kam-.
So is one root, -, plus the noun ending. Keep it away from
, a fireplace, and kamero, a chamber - a language with this many
borrowed roots inevitably puts a few of them next door to each other.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 24, lesson 2: kamelo, konkuri, naĝejo and 7 more words.