Translation
pullover, jumper, sweater
Word origin
Straight from English pullover, a garment you pull over your head. The whole English phrase came in as a single root.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- pullover
- English cognates
- pullover, pull
Examples
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The room is cold, so I am wearing a jumper.
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She bought a blue jumper for the winter.
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My jumper is too big.
Straight from English, and unusually literal about it: a is the thing you pull over your head. The phrase came into the language as one lump and stayed one lump.
Which produces one of the better accidents in the vocabulary. Pulo is a flea and is truth, so a learner cutting at the obvious seam gets flea-truth, which is a fine name for a band and a poor name for a jumper. It is not that. /o is a single indivisible borrowing, and the pul- inside it is English pull, not the insect.
On the English side, pick your own dialect and stop worrying: your is a jumper in Britain, a sweater in America and a pullover in both, and Esperanto covers all three with one word. The neighbours are for a shirt and for a jacket.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 48.