Translation
sandwich
Word origin
Named after John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, who by the usual account called for meat between two slices of bread so that he could keep working, or gambling, without stopping to eat. The title comes from the Kentish port of Sandwich, whose own name is Old English sand plus wic, a trading place on the sand.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- Sandwich
- English cognates
- sandwich
Examples
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I ate a cheese sandwich in the garden.
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She made three sandwiches for the day trip.
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The boys ate their sandwiches during the outing.
A loan you can hear coming, though the spelling takes a moment. Esperanto writes the English ch sound with ĉ, so the word is , and it is pronounced san-DVI-cho with the stress on the second-last syllable like every other Esperanto noun. The -x version used on keyboards without the hats is sandvicxo, which is where this page's file name comes from.
Nothing about the word decomposes. Sandv- is not a root and -iĉ- is not the suffix here, which matters, because Esperanto does have an unofficial -iĉ- marking male beings. A is not a male anything. It is a proper name that turned into a food, and the whole thing is the root.
The general word for something you eat between meals is o, a little meal, built from manĝi with the diminutive. is specifically the bread-and-filling construction, and Esperantists at congresses eat a great many of them.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 40.