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Translation

leather

Word origin

From German Leder and English leather, both from Proto-Germanic lethran. It is one of the early roots, listed in Zamenhof's Russian-International dictionary of 1889.

Origin
Germanic
Root
leþrą
English cognates
leather, Leder

Examples

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The jacket is made of good leather.

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He wore black leather shoes.

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Leather is stronger than cloth.

There is no -ed- suffix. looks like it might be l- plus something, and the temptation grows once you have met -- (quality), -- (large), -- (place) and -er- (particle) in the same fortnight of study. It is a false seam. Esperanto has no -ed- affix at all, led- is a single Germanic root that arrived whole from Leder and leather, and the word is as unanalysable as . Worth saying out loud, because the affix system is so productive that learners start seeing suffixes in words that never had any.

Hide, skin, leather - three words, three jobs. Haŭto is skin, the living covering on an animal or on you. Felo is the hide or pelt taken off the animal, fur still attached. is what the tanner makes out of it: the processed material, no longer part of anything. English blurs the middle two and Esperanto does not, so a sentence about a fur coat wants and a sentence about a belt wants .

Derivations you will actually meet. Leda is the adjective - leda , a leather coat - though is at least as common and reads a little plainer. o is a leather article, o a leatherworker, and ledi shows up occasionally meaning to cover something in leather. Esperanto has no equivalent of the English mass-noun shortcut a leather, so the material always takes or the adjective.

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This word is part of lesson 43.