Translation
to pick, to pluck
Word origin
From the Germanic family that gives English pluck, German pflücken and Dutch plukken, all of them going back to a Late Latin piluccare, to pull out hair by hair.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Root
- pluck
- English cognates
- pluck
Examples
.
She picked flowers in the garden.
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We picked apples all morning.
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He plucked a few leaves off the tree.
is the small, precise action of taking something off the plant it grew
on, one at a time: flowers, fruit, leaves, a feather. It is not
kolekti, which is gathering things together
wherever they came from, and it is not
rikolti, which is harvesting a whole crop. Pick one
apple, ; bring in the orchard, .
The derivations behave: o the picking as an activity, o a
picker, o a tool for it. In music the same root does the work English
does with the same word - you the strings of a guitar.
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