Translation
weekend
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Word origin
An Esperanto compound of semajno ('week', from French semaine and Latin septimana) and fino ('end', from Latin finis). It calques English weekend and French fin de semaine.
- Origin
- Esperanto compound, calqued from English and French
- Root
- semajno + fino
- English cognates
- finish, finite
Examples
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We shall spend the weekend by the sea.
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What did you do at the weekend?
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The weekend is too short.
Read the compound and the meaning falls out: + , the end of the week. Esperanto glues roots together this freely, and the joining o is dropped whenever the result stays easy to say - hence rather than semajnofino, though both are permitted.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 16, lesson 4: semajnfino, semo, guto and 6 more words.