Translation
to kick
Word origin
Assembled inside Esperanto from piedo, foot, and bati, to beat. Piedo is Latin pes, stem ped-, and bati is French battre, from Latin battuere.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- piedo + bati
- English cognates
- pedal, pedestrian, battery
Grammar
Irregular verb. A full conjugation table for irregular verbs is coming soon. For now, use a reference like Wordreference or RAE.
Examples
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The boy kicked the ball across the street.
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Do not kick the dog.
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The horse kicked the wall of the house.
Read it and you have it. Piedo is a foot. Bati is to hit. Put the noun root in front of the verb and you get the specific way of hitting: , to hit with the foot, to kick. Esperanto builds a great deal of its vocabulary this way and asks you to memorise none of it.
The same joint gives manbati, to strike with the hand, and kapbati, to headbutt. You will also meet piedfrapi, built on frapi instead, which is the same action with a sharper edge to it. The noun is piedbato, a kick.
One more from the same root. is football, foot plus ball, sitting just up the list at rank 2,484; futbalo is the borrowed word for the same game, and both are in use.
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