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Translation

to roast; to grill

Word origin

One Germanic root, from German rosten (to roast) and its relatives; English roast reached us through Old French rostir from the same Frankish source. Nothing in the word comes apart.

Origin
German
Root
rosten
English cognates
roast, roaster

Examples

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She roasted the meat in the oven.

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We will toast bread over the fire.

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He roasted the potatoes with salt.

One root, and it needs saying. - looks like it might be doing something - Esperanto has (dew), and a learner in affix-hunting mode can talk themselves into almost anything. It is not that. Rost- is a single Germanic root borrowed whole, is unrelated, and the -i at the end is nothing but the infinitive ending. When a short verb resists decomposition like this, the honest move is to memorise it rather than to build a story around it.

Roast, grill, toast - one word for three. English splits cooking-with-dry-heat three ways depending on the equipment. Esperanto uses for all of it and specifies only if it matters: is roasting, super is grilling or barbecuing, is making toast. is toast; o is a roast, the joint of meat itself; o is the grill or toaster, the -- tool suffix doing its usual clean job.

The cooking verbs, sorted. Kuiri is the general one, to cook. Baki is to bake, and belongs to bread and cakes. is to boil, to fry in fat, is dry heat. o is the kitchen and kuiristo the cook.

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This word is part of lesson 44.