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
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The doorman opened the door of the hotel.
, .
Ask the doorman where the room is.
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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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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 59.