Translation
tram, streetcar
Word origin
From English tram, which began as a Scots and Low German word for a beam or shaft, then meant the rails laid from such beams, and only then the vehicle running on them.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- tram
- English cognates
- tram, tramway
Examples
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We travelled to the centre by tram.
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The tram stopped in front of the station.
?
Does that tram go to the old town?
One root, -, with no seam anywhere in it. It is not plus a mysterious -mo, and there is no verb trami hiding behind it.
Against and , a is the one on rails in the street rather than on a line of its own. The vehicle itself is a when you want to talk about the carriage rather than the service.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 57.