Translation
thunder
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Word origin
From Latin tonitrus, thunder, through French tonnerre and Italian tuono. English thunder is a Germanic cousin of the same Indo-European root, and so is the god Thor.
- Origin
- Latin, via French
- Root
- tonitrus
- English cognates
- thunder, detonate, astonish
Examples
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After the lightning came the thunder.
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The thunder woke the children.
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We heard the thunder all night long.
The false seam to refuse: is not (to shear, to clip) with an -r- dropped in the middle. Those are separate roots that collided in Esperanto's spelling, and a haircut has nothing to do with a storm. The pair to keep straight instead is and : the bang and the flash, thunder and lightning. The verb is , used impersonally, it is thundering, and figuratively for a voice or an ovation.
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Word family
Words built on tondro with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- fulmotondronoun
thunderstorm
fulmotondro
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 18, lesson 7: tondro, enigmo, tenti and 7 more words.