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tableword

tableword noun: any of the basic correlatives in Esperanto, often displayed in a table.

Noun

tableword (plural tablewords)

  1. Any of the basic correlatives in Esperanto, often displayed in a table.
    • And how many little words and particles that fit nowhere must we learn? Esperanto's inventor Zamenhof had a stroke of genius on that: the so-called table words.1991 June 11, Daniel Pfeiffer, “Common Language”, in sci.lang (Usenet)
    • There is a table of words for what/when/where / that/then/there etc, but that's about it... ¶ If you are learning just by reading the text, a useful trick to know is that words and word-roots can be stuck together to make bigger words. (But the above-mentioned tablewords are *not* made that way.)1996 June 21, Jiri Baum, “Re: Help”, in soc.culture.esperanto (Usenet)

Forms of tableword

pluraltablewords

Origin of tableword

From table + word. Calque of Esperanto tabelvorto.

Questions about tableword

What does tableword mean?
Tableword means any of the basic correlatives in Esperanto, often displayed in a table.
What part of speech is tableword?
Tableword is a noun.
What is the plural of tableword?
The plural of tableword is tablewords.

Words near tableword in the dictionary

  1. tablewards
  2. tableware
  3. tablewares
  4. tablewear
  5. tablewise
  6. tableword
  7. tablewords
  8. tablework
  9. tableworthy
  10. tablier
  11. tabliers

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