Translation
worm
Word origin
From Latin vermis, a worm, which reached Esperanto through the Romance languages and German Wurm alike. English worm is the same ancient word arriving down the Germanic side of the family, so the two are cousins rather than a borrowing.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- vermis
- English cognates
- vermin, vermicelli, vermiform
Examples
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The bird found a fat worm in the earth.
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Worms live in the cold soil beneath us.
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After the rain I saw a lot of worms on the road.
is the animal: an earthworm in the soil, a worm in an apple, the
bookworm eating a page. There is no verb hiding in it and no second sense to
learn.
It is here mainly because of what learners think they can see in it. By this
point in the course the affix machinery is second nature, and the eye starts
finding joins in words that have none. There is no suffix -erm- in
Esperanto, so v- plus -erm- plus -o is not a reading of anything.
is one root, -, with the ordinary noun ending on the end. The
honest rule, the same one taught: a piece only counts as an affix
when the part in front of it is a root you could also meet standing alone.
Two neighbours are worth keeping apart by ear, because Esperanto's vowels are
short and clean and none of these three sounds alike once you slow down:
a worm, vero the truth, and
varma warm. A tervermo is specifically an
earthworm, and vermoplena describes fruit you should not buy.
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