Translation
pole, rod, metal bar
Word origin
From German Stange, a pole or bar, from a Germanic root that also gave English sting, stake and stang. The idea underneath is a long thin thing you drive into the ground.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Stange
- English cognates
- stake, sting
Examples
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The flag hangs on a tall pole.
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He held a long rod in his hand.
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The pole is made of wood, not metal.
Closing a loop. The page, at rank 2384, had to leave this word as a promise: a pole in the sense of a long stick is , it said, and this course reaches it at rank 2468. Here it is. The two English senses of pole are two unrelated Esperanto words, and you now have both. A flagpole is a flagstango, never a flagpoluso. The North Pole is norda , never a norda .
And one letter from , tin, at rank 2463, which arrived three words ago in this same batch. Latin stannum against German Stange, no relationship whatsoever, and the only thing between them is the g. This is the sort of pair worth drilling as a pair rather than separately.
Against . A , rank 976, is a stick you hold: a walking stick, a cane, a staff. A is a rod or bar considered as a fixed thing, usually planted or mounted: the flagpole, the curtain rail, the crossbar. Both are long and thin, but the is in your hand and the is in the ground.
at rank 1482 and at rank 2288 are what go on top of it, and no, is not with extra letters either.
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