Translation
trench (military)
Word origin
From French tranchée, a cut made in the ground, from trancher, to cut. Esperanto tranĉi comes from the same French verb, so the two words are genuine cousins even though neither is built from the other.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- tranchée
- English cognates
- trench, trenchant
Examples
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The soldiers spent the winter in cold trenches.
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The trenches of the First World War still remain in the fields.
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They dug a new trench in the rain.
A is a military trench, the dug line soldiers fight from. It is a separate root from (to cut, rank 1233) even though French made both out of the same verb.
The seam that is not there is tranĉ-e-o. Esperanto has no -e- suffix that would build a noun out of a verb root, so that reading is not merely wrong, it is not available. The root is - entire, and the family is tranĉea, tranĉei if you insist, and nothing else you will need.
The word belongs to a period more than to a place. Where you meet it, (rank 2245) is usually somewhere in the same paragraph, and a in the next one.
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Start your free weekThis word is part of lesson 58.