surtuto

The funniest entry in the false-seam file, because it is not false. Look at surtuto with Esperanto eyes and you see sur at 27, "on" or "over", plus tut-, the root of tuta at 42, "whole" or "all". Over-everything. A coat you wear over everything. And a learner who decodes it that way and feels clever has been caught by a trap that is not a trap: French surtout is sur plus tout, and it means exactly that. The garment was named for going on top of the lot.

It is still not Esperanto morphology. Surtut- came in from French as one root, and the resemblance is a coincidence of two languages having borrowed the same prepositions from Latin. Build it yourself and you would get surtuta, which reads as an adjective meaning "over-the-whole" and names no garment at all. So the honest description is the same as for inspiri: a real seam in the source language, a false one here, and this is the class at its most entertaining because the false decoding lands on the right answer anyway. The French adverb surtout, "above all", is the same two words used a different way, and Esperanto did not borrow that one.

Which coat is it, though? Esperanto has a small wardrobe of them and the lines are worth knowing. Vesto at 237 is clothing in general. Jako at 1,449 is a jacket, short, part of a suit. Mantelo at 1,206 is the everyday coat and the word you want nine times out of ten - it also carries the older sense of a cloak or mantle. Surtuto is the long formal overcoat worn over a suit, the frock-coated end of the range, and it reads slightly dated in modern Esperanto for exactly the reason it reads dated in English: hardly anyone dresses like that any more.