Translation
woodcutter, lumberjack
Word origin
Assembled in Esperanto out of three ordinary pieces: ligno, wood, plus the root of haki, to chop, plus the professional suffix -ist-. Nothing here is borrowed as a whole word.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- ligno + hak- + -ist-
Examples
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The woodcutter carried his axe on his shoulder.
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An old woodcutter lived in the forest with his two daughters.
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The woodcutter chopped the tree with a sharp axe.
Three pieces, all regular: (wood, rank 719), the root of (to chop, rank 1879), and --, the suffix for someone who does a thing for a living. Read left to right and the word gives itself up.
That is the whole argument for Esperanto compounding in one word. Learn the three parts and you have not learned one word but a pattern: ŝtonhakisto, glacihakisto, lignoportisto all build the same way and would be understood on first hearing. More on the suffix in Affixes: size and people.
He is also the man with the (rank 2302) in every second folk tale, standing at the edge of the dark forest at exactly the moment the plot needs him, and Esperanto's translated fairy tales are full of him.
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