Kilo Lingo

#515 of 5,000 Core 1000

Translation

sailor, seaman

Examples

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The sailors sang while they worked.

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He was a sailor for ten years.

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A young sailor told of distant lands.

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The sailors left the ship at the shore.

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Her father was a sailor on a big ship.

plus --, and the suffix is doing something slightly odd here that is worth noticing. -- normally means one who does a thing, hung off a verb root - , o. On it hangs off a noun instead and means one whose trade is bound up with it. The same pattern gives o for a forester. Contrast -an-, which marks membership rather than trade: a o is anyone aboard, crew or not. o is a ship's crew as a body.

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This word is part of lesson 11.