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Translation

doorman, doorkeeper

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from pordo ('door') plus -ist-, the suffix of trade and profession. Pordo itself is Latin porta, a gate, which also gives English port, portal and porch.

Origin
Esperanto build
Root
pordo + -ist-
English cognates
portal, porch, port

Examples

.

The doorman opened the door of the hotel.

, .

Ask the doorman where the room is.

.

Our doorkeeper knows every person in the building.

Decode it and you are done. Pordo at rank 171 is a door. -- is the profession suffix you met in the affix track: the person who does this thing for a living. is therefore the door person, and every English translation of it (doorman, doorkeeper, porter, concierge, janitor, gatekeeper) is a different accident of English rather than a different Esperanto word.

The suffix is the lesson, not the word. You already have kuracisto from , servisto from , oficisto from . is the same machine applied to a noun rather than a verb, which is allowed and common: o, o, o. Once you notice that -- attaches to whatever the job is about, you stop learning job titles one at a time.

The near neighbours worth separating. A sits at a specific door and controls who comes through it, typically at a hotelo or a large domo. A o guards a thing and may roam. A o, built on rather than , carries luggage, and English porter unhelpfully covers both jobs. Esperanto keeps them one letter and one whole meaning apart, so pronounce the d clearly.

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This word is part of lesson 59.