Translation
jaw
Word origin
From Latin maxilla, the jawbone, which anatomy still uses for the upper jaw. The Latin word is a diminutive of mala, the cheek.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- maxilla
- English cognates
- maxilla, maxillary
Examples
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The dog held the stick between its jaws.
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After the accident he could not move his jaw for a whole week.
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The dentist asked me to open my jaws.
One root, -. There is no mak- and no -zel-; the word is a single borrowing from Latin, and the awkward consonant cluster in the middle is what a Latin x becomes when Esperanto spells it out as kz.
A is the bone and the working hinge of it, so an animal that grips something does it . The chin on the front of it is , the cheek beside it is vango, and the whole opening is buŝo.
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