Translation
cloth; kerchief, scarf
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Word origin
From German Tuch, a cloth, one of Esperanto's small stock of Germanic roots. It is unrelated to the Latin family that gave textile and texture.
- Origin
- German
- Root
- Tuch
- English cognates
- towel
Examples
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She covered the table with a white cloth.
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He wears a red scarf around his neck.
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The cloth is clean and dry.
is a finished piece of cloth with a job: a tablecloth, a handkerchief, a headscarf, a towel. It is not fabric by the metre - that is - and it is not the woven material in the abstract, which is o. If you can pick it up and it has edges, it is a .
Which kind you mean is settled by a compound, and this is one of the most productive little families in the language: tablotuko (tablecloth), naztuko (handkerchief), kaptuko (headscarf), koltuko (neck scarf), bantuko (bath towel), viŝtuko (tea towel), littuko (bed sheet). Learn the pattern rather than the list, because it generates the ones you have not met yet.
Bare on its own is perfectly good when the context is obvious - somebody at a table asking for wants the tablecloth - but reach for the compound whenever a listener might picture the wrong rectangle.
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Word family
Words built on tuko with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- mantukonoun
towel, hand towel
manotuko
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 20, lesson 4: tuko, enuigi, ganto and 7 more words.