Translation
small cake, cupcake
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Word origin
A genuine Esperanto build: kuko, cake, plus the diminutive -et-. Kuko itself comes from German Kuchen, the same Germanic family as English cake.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation, on a German root
- Root
- kuko + -et- + -o
- English cognates
- cake
Examples
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She baked little cakes for the children.
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I have tea with a small cake every afternoon.
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The little cakes were too sweet for me.
A real seam, for once. Kuko is a cake, -- makes
things small, and a is a little cake. You can hear the whole word
before anyone teaches it to you, which is the point of the affix system.
The awkward part is where it lands in English. A is a small cake: a
bun, a cupcake, a fairy cake, the thing on the plate next to the tea. It is
not the reliable word for a biscuit, because Esperanto already has
biskvito for the hard, baked-twice, snaps-in-half
article. You will still meet used for biscuits and American cookies,
particularly by speakers translating from English, and nobody will be
confused. But if you mean a digestive, say ; if you mean something
soft you would ice, say .
The suffix scales in both directions. o is a great slab of cake,
o is a cake tin, and o is the person who makes them for a
living. None of those are dictionary entries you have to learn.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 22, lesson 3: kuketo, pirato, kerno and 6 more words.