Translation
tunnel
Word origin
From English tunnel, which came from Old French tonel, a cask, a diminutive of tonne. A tunnel was first anything barrel shaped, a flue or a net, and only later a passage bored through rock.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- tunnel
- English cognates
- tunnel, tun, ton
Examples
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The train entered a long tunnel under the mountain.
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They built the tunnel over seven years.
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In the tunnel there was cold air and complete darkness.
No suffix in sight. The root is - all the way through. It is tempting to read a -- on the end, but Esperanto has no such suffix: the tool suffix is -- (o, a knife), and tuno, a tonne, is a separate root that happens to be the same word's distant relative in English.
covers the railway tunnel, the road tunnel and the animal's burrow-tunnel alike. To bore one is tunelfosi or simply .
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