memkomprenebla
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Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mem- (“self”) + komprenebla (“understandable”), perhaps a calque of German selbstverständlich, English self-evident and perhaps some other languages.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]memkomprenebla (accusative singular memkompreneblan, plural memkompreneblaj, accusative plural memkompreneblajn)
- self-evident [from 1890s]
- 1897, Lingvo internacia, volume 2, page 85:
- Cetere, tio estas tiel memkomprenebla, ke la Pacanoj, tuj de ilia unua Kongreso universala (Paris, 1889), proklamis, ke la posedo de ia lingvo internacia estus multe dezirinda por la progreso de l' movado paciga, […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]- memkompreneble (“self-evidently”)
- memkomprenebleco (“self-evidence; self-evidency”)
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