Translation
package, parcel; luggage, baggage
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto, not borrowed whole: the root pak- ('to pack', taken from the international pack, packen, paquet) plus the suffix -aĵ, which turns an idea into a concrete thing. A pakaĵo is therefore a packed thing.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on an international root
- Root
- pak + -aĵ
- English cognates
- pack, package
Examples
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I left my luggage at the hotel.
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The packages are too heavy for one person.
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She sent a parcel to her daughter.
Take the word apart and it explains itself: pak- is packing, -- makes a physical object out of whatever precedes it, so a is the packed thing. That covers both the parcel in the post and the bags you drag through an airport, where English needs parcel and luggage separately. One is a suitcase; all your together are your .
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