Translation
container, tree, or home country of
Examples
on.
Put the money in the wallet.
o .
He was born in France before the war.
o .
The apple tree stands beside the house.
o .
She returned to England with her brother.
o a.
The salt cellar on the table is empty.
-- holds three jobs at once, and they are less unlike than they look. It names the container for a mass of the root: gives o, gives o. It names the tree that bears the fruit: gives o. And it names the land the people live in: gives o, gives o, gives o. Every result is a noun in -o.
The suffix to keep it apart from is --, which holds exactly one item upright. A o is a candlestick; a o would be the box the candles came in.
Country names are the live argument. o, Francio and Franclando are all read without trouble, but - is what most speakers write today.
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