Kilo Lingo

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Translation

rabbit

Word origin

From Latin cuniculus, a rabbit and also a burrow or mine tunnel. The same word gave Spanish conejo and the older English coney, the word rabbit displaced.

Origin
Latin
Root
cuniculus
English cognates
coney, cony

Examples

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The rabbit is running through the garden.

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A white rabbit has long ears.

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We saw three rabbits in the field.

is the rabbit; the hare is a different animal and a different root, . Esperanto builds the family the usual way: o is a doe, o a young one, and o the hutch or warren they live in. The -in, - and - suffixes doing that work are covered in the affixes article.

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This word is part of lesson 30.