Translation
stocking
Word origin
From German Strumpf, which before it meant a stocking meant a stump or a mutilated limb. The leg covering took the name of the leg. English stump comes from the same Germanic family.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Strumpf
- English cognates
- stump
Examples
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She is wearing long black stockings under the skirt.
, .
One stocking has a hole, and I cannot find the other.
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Put the stockings in the drawer.
The base arrives after the derivative. A
ŝtrumpeto is a sock, and it is plus
the diminutive --: a little stocking. The sock page went up at rank 2272,
in chapter 24, and had to explain a word it could not link to, because
itself sits here at 2422. Now both exist and the pair closes.
That ordering is not an accident of our corpus, it is a fact about clothing. Most people put socks on every morning and stockings on a handful of times a year, so the derived word is genuinely commoner than the word it derives from. Esperanto does not mind. The affix system does not require you to meet the parent first; it only requires that when you do meet it, the child suddenly makes sense in retrospect.
What it covers. is the long one, up the
leg: a stocking, and by extension the long football
sock. stops at the ankle. Ŝtrumpkalsono welds the stocking to
, the underpants, and gives you a pair of tights, which is one of
those compounds that is either transparent or absurd depending on how long you
look at it. Ŝtrumpligilo is a garter.
Note the initial ŝt-. Esperanto allows consonant clusters that English
spells but softens, and this one is pronounced in full: ŝ then t, no
vowel smuggled in between.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 49.