Translation
a mine (pit)
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from the root min-, an ore working, plus the place suffix -ej-. The root itself is international, reaching Esperanto through French mine and reaching French from a Gaulish word for ore.
- Origin
- Esperanto derivation
- Root
- min- + -ej-
- English cognates
- mine, mineral
Examples
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His father worked in the mine for many years.
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Iron and gold are taken out of that mine.
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The mine is deep and the way down is long.
A real seam, this one. -- is the place suffix and it is everywhere:
is the learning place, o the baking place, the
praying place, gastejo the guest place. is
the mining place, and it decodes exactly the way it looks.
The base root is -, and this site does not yet have a page for it.
That is a gap in our coverage rather than a fact about the language:
Esperanto has mino and mini, and the derived word simply turns up more often
in text than the bare root does. Be aware that mino carries two senses that
English also carries: the excavation, and the buried explosive. The place word
is unambiguous, which is one reason it earns its own slot.
The family, since it is regular. o is a miner, o is mining
as an activity, o is the pit worker specifically, and karbominejo
is a coal mine. Note that a is the whole working, not the shaft: the
shaft is a ŝakto, and if you want the tunnel you already have
tunelo.
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