Kilo Lingo

Line drawing of ŝtrumpo
Coloured illustration of ŝtrumpo
#2422 of 5,000 Core 5000

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.

.

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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This word is part of lesson 49.