Translation
to load (a firearm); to charge (a battery)
Word origin
From French charger, from Late Latin carricare, to load a wagon, from carrus, a cart. Esperanto took the same French verb twice, once as ŝargi and once as ŝarĝi, and gave each half of the meaning.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- carricare
- English cognates
- charge, cargo, car
Examples
.
He loaded the pistol with one bullet.
.
I have to charge the phone before we go.
.
The battery is not charged.
One hat apart, and two different words. This is the trap of the band.
and ŝarĝi differ by the circumflex on the
g, and in the x-system they are sxargi and sxargxi, which is two
letters. They are separate roots with separate dictionary entries, and the
division between them is clean once you hear it.
is about weight. You put on something that has to be carried:
a cart with goods, an animal with a load, a person with responsibility.
Ŝarĝo is the burden, and the word goes figurative easily.
is about supply. You put in something the thing needs in order to
work: a gun with a cartridge, a camera with film, a
battery with
electricity, a phone with a charge. Ŝargo is
the charge in that sense, and i is to unload a weapon or to
discharge a battery.
So a lorry is and a phone is , and if you swap them you
have said that the lorry is powered up and the phone is heavy. English hides
the distinction behind one word, charge, that does both jobs and several
others.
Both come from the same French verb charger, which is the neat part: one
etymology, deliberately split into two roots so that Esperanto never has to be
ambiguous where English is. Compare logi and
loĝi, the other pair in this course separated by
nothing but a circumflex, and be equally careful when you type without
diacritics.
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