Translation
postage stamp
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of poŝto ('post, mail') and marko ('mark, stamp'). Poŝto goes back through Italian posta to Latin ponere, 'to place', for the stations where relay horses were placed along a road; marko is Germanic.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound
- Root
- poŝto + marko
- English cognates
- post, postal, mark
Examples
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I put a stamp on the letter.
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He collects stamps from many countries.
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That stamp is very old and costs a lot.
A clean two-root compound, and one where knowing the halves gets you the whole family. is the postal service, o the postman, o the post office, a postcard, and marko is a mark or a token stuck on to show something. A stamp is a postal mark. Compounds like this are put together exactly as the compounding article describes, main root last: the thing is a , and - says which kind.
Now the trap, and it is a good one. is the post; poŝo is a pocket. One letter apart, and both plausible in a sentence about a letter, so and are two entirely different afternoons. The t is doing all the work. Keep the two roots apart in your head from the start, because they will not stop looking alike.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 19, lesson 12: poŝtmarko, masko, dato and 6 more words.