Translation
to dry (something), to dry out
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto: seka 'dry' plus the causative suffix -ig-. The root seka comes from Latin siccus, dry, the same word behind the wine label sec and the English desiccate.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on Latin siccus
- Root
- seka + -ig-
- English cognates
- desiccate, sack (the wine)
Examples
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The sun dried the clothes in an hour.
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She dried her hands with warm air.
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Dry the plates, please.
A textbook --. Take the adjective seka, dry; add --, "to make ...", and you get "to make dry", which is exactly what the transitive English verb means. The sun dries the clothes: the sun is doing it to them.
Its partner is , with --, which turns the same idea round so the subject undergoes it: , the clothes dried. English uses one verb for both jobs and leaves you to work out from context whether the shirt is drying or being dried; Esperanto marks the difference in the word, and getting --/-- the wrong way round is the single most common mistake learners make past the first month. The pair is worked through in the -ig- and -iĝ- article, and the wider question of which verbs take objects at all in transitivity.
Two useful relatives fall out of the same root: o is a dryer (--, the tool suffix) and o a drying room.
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