Translation
to nauseate, to sicken
Word origin
From Latin nausea, from Greek nausia ('seasickness'), from naus ('ship'). The word is a sea voyage: what a ship does to a stomach became the name of the feeling anywhere.
- Origin
- Greek, via Latin
- Root
- naus
- English cognates
- nausea, nautical, navy
Examples
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The smell of the fish sickened me.
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The cold soup sickened the children.
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Too much wine made him sick.
The direction of the verb is the trap. The thing that turns the stomach is the subject, and the person is the object: , not the other way about. To be the one feeling sick, use i or naŭzon. The is one syllable, so the word has two.
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