Kilo Lingo

Line drawing of kokido
Coloured illustration of kokido
#2561 of 5,000 Core 5000

Translation

chick, young chicken

Word origin

Nothing was borrowed here. The word is koko, a chicken, plus the suffix -id-, which names the young of whatever it is attached to. The root koko is imitative, the same noise that gave French coq and English cock and cuckoo.

Origin
Esperanto (koko + -id-)
Root
kok- + -id-
English cognates
cock, cuckoo

Examples

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The hen led her chicks through the garden.

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A small yellow chick came out of the egg.

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We have ten chicks in the yard.

Two pieces, and you already own both. Koko at rank 1,766 is the bird. -- is the offspring suffix. A is therefore a chicken's young, which in English needs a word of its own, chick, unrelated to chicken by anything the eye can see. Esperanto does not need one, and this is the first place in the course where the suffix does real work rather than appearing in a list.

The whole -- family runs on the same rule. an ox gives a calf; a horse gives o a foal; gives o a kitten, gives a puppy, gives a duckling, and a fantasy novel will happily write o for a dragon's young without explaining itself. The suffix also works on people: reĝo a king gives , a king's child, hence a prince. That last one is worth keeping in mind on the next page but one, where another word in this band opens with - and has nothing whatever to do with kings.

The nearby birds, and the fence around the meat. A kokino is a hen, on its own leans towards the cockerel, and virkoko says so explicitly when the context needs it. What does not mean is chicken as food. That is o or o, with the -- suffix that turns a creature into the substance it yields, exactly as gives o for beef. Ordering in a restaurant asks for a live chick.

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This word is part of lesson 52.