Translation
to drive, to propel; to chase
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Word origin
From Latin pellere ('to drive, to push'). English took the same root under a shelf of prefixes and almost never on its own, which is why compel, expel and propel are familiar and pel is not.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- pellere
- English cognates
- compel, expel, propel
Examples
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The boy drove the sheep to the field.
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The wind drove the clouds across the sky.
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What drives you to do that?
is force applied from behind: you push the flock, the wind pushes the cloud. It is not the English drive of driving a car, which is or i. The prefixes work exactly as Latin's did, so drives away, elpeli drives out, and alpeli drives towards, and each is transparent once you know the base.
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Word family
Words built on peli with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- forpeliverb
to drive away, to chase off, to expel
forpeli
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 11: peli, sveni, imperio and 7 more words.