Translation
mast
Word origin
A north European sailors' word rather than a Latin one. It comes through German Mast and Dutch mast from the Germanic root that also gives English mast, and the whole rigging vocabulary reached Esperanto the same way the ships did.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- mast
- English cognates
- mast
Examples
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The sail on the tall mast was white.
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A large flag hung from the ship's mast.
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The sailor climbed the mast to see the harbour.
One letter from a completely different word. is the spar a sail
hangs on. Mastro, rank 530, is a master, an owner or
the host of a house. They differ by a single r, they come from opposite ends
of Europe (Germanic against Latin magister), and nothing connects them
but bad luck. A ŝipmastro is the man in charge and a ŝipmasto is a length of
timber, so the r is worth your attention.
The rigging set is nearly complete. Ŝipo at 324 is
the vessel, velo at 1,820 the sail,
ferdeko at 2,308 the deck,
haveno at 1,549 the harbour,
barko at 2,626 the small boat, and was the
missing piece. A velŝipo is a sailing ship and a trimasta is a
three-master, built exactly as English builds it.
It is not only for boats. Esperanto extends to any tall pole planted
upright for something to fly or stand on: a flagmasto for the
flago, an antenmasto for a transmitter. English does
the same, which for once makes the borrowing free in both directions.
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