Translation
board, plank; blackboard
Word origin
From Latin tabula ('plank, board, writing tablet'). Esperanto tablo comes from the same Latin word by a different route, through French table, which is why the two look like relatives and behave like strangers.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- tabula
- English cognates
- table, tablet, tabulate
Examples
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The teacher wrote the words on the board.
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We made a bench out of five planks.
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The list of names is hanging on the board.
One root, two arrivals: is the flat piece of wood or the classroom board, while is the thing you eat at. Latin tabula fathered both, but Esperanto took them in separately and they do not swap. A noticeboard is anonctabulo, a chessboard is ŝaktabulo, and the school one is simply .
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