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Translation

for one's own part; in its own turn

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from sia ('one's own'), vico ('a row, a turn') and the -e that turns any root into an adverb. Vico sits with Latin vicem, a turn or a change, which is where English vicissitude and the vice- of vice-president come from.

Origin
Esperanto compound
Root
sia + vico + -e
English cognates
vicissitude, vice-president

Examples

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Each child in his own turn read one page.

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My father helped me, and I in my turn helped my brother.

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The young teacher in his turn taught others.

Three pieces again, and the middle one you already own.Sia is the reflexive possessive, one's own. Vico is a row, a queue or a turn. -e makes it an adverb. In one's own turn: for one's part, in one's own right, next in the sequence.

The sibling to hold it against is laŭvice, and the difference is real. is according to the turn - it describes a group doing something in rotation, one after another, and it is about the order of the queue. puts the spotlight on one participant and says: and this one, when it came round to them, did such and such. is everybody spoke in rotation. is and then he, for his part, spoke. The first is about the system; the second is about the person.

The - compound family is small, useful and completely regular.Siatempe is at the time, in its day - siatempe fama means he was famous back then. Siaflanke is for one's part, on one's own side of the argument, and it is nearly a synonym for in argument-writing. Siaspeca is of its own kind, the Esperanto for sui generis. Siaokaze is where appropriate. And because is genuinely reflexive, all of them shift person the moment you need them to: miavice is for my part, liavice for his, niavice for ours. That is not an irregularity, it is the correlative logic of the language behaving exactly as advertised.

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This word is part of lesson 57.