knabo
Appearance
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Knabe (which is now dated, but was still standard at the time of the creation of Esperanto), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *knabō, an alternative reconstruction of *knappō. Compare English knave, knape, German Knappe, Dutch knaap.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]knabo (accusative singular knabon, plural knaboj, accusative plural knabojn)
- boy
- 1903, L. L. Zamenhof, Fundamenta Krestomatio[1]:
- La malgranda knabo estis en forta febro kaj malfacile bataladis pro spiro.
- The small boy had a high fever and with difficulty fought to breathe.
Hypernyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]Coordinate terms
[edit]- knabino (“girl”)
Derived terms
[edit]Old High German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-West Germanic *knabō.
Noun
[edit]knabo m
Related terms
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