Translation
tail; tail end, rear
Word origin
From Russian хвост (khvost), a tail, one of the Slavic roots Zamenhof took when no Romance or Germanic word was any more international than the rest. English has no cognate, which is why it has to be learned rather than guessed.
- Origin
- Russian
- Root
- хвост (khvost)
Examples
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The dog is wagging its tail.
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That bird has a very long tail.
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The fish's tail touched the water.
An animal's first, but the word stretches the way English tail does: the of a comet, of an aeroplane, of a dress. You will also meet it for a queue of waiting people, a calque out of French and Russian that reads oddly to English eyes but is perfectly standard. A dog wags with or, more plainly, .
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