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Translation

meat

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Word origin

From French viande ('meat'), which goes back to Latin vivenda, 'things to live on'. The archaic English word viands, provisions, keeps the same root.

Origin
French
Root
viande
English cognates
viands

Examples

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I do not eat meat.

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Do you want meat or bread?

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The dog quickly ate the meat.

is meat as food on a plate; the flesh of a living body is , so a butcher sells while an anatomist discusses . Name the animal by prefixing it: bovoviando is beef, porkoviando pork, kokidoviando chicken. is the sentence every vegetarian learns first, and Esperanto obligingly builds for the person saying it.

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This word is taught in chapter 12, lesson 10: viando, scivola, menso and 7 more words.