Translation
meat
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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