Translation
wild, savage
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Examples
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Many wild animals live in the forest.
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The boy grew up wild and free.
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A wild wind shook the windows.
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She looked at me with wild eyes.
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The wild flowers covered the whole field.
covers both halves of English wild: untamed and uncultivated on one side, ferocious or unrestrained on the other, and context decides which. i is to tame, built the long way round from wild rather than borrowing a separate root, and o is a wilderness. Applied to people it is the word older texts use for peoples the writer considered savage, so it comes with the nineteenth-century baggage you would expect and is worth handling carefully in modern prose. For merely furious, or will serve you better.
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Word family
Words built on sovaĝa with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- malsovaĝaadjective
tame
mal-sovaĝa: the opposite of wild
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 6: sovaĝa, regi, insulo and 7 more words.