fervojo
Appearance
Esperanto
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Etymology
[edit]From fero (“iron”) + vojo (“way”), a calque of German Eisenbahn. Compare Yiddish אײַזנבאַן (ayznban), Italian ferrovia, French voie ferrée, Spanish ferrovía, Russian желе́зная доро́га (želéznaja doróga), Hungarian vasút, Latvian dzelzceļš, Japanese 鉄道 (tetsudō). First attested in 1889.[1]
Pronunciation
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[edit]fervojo (accusative singular fervojon, plural fervojoj, accusative plural fervojojn)
- railway, railroad (metal track(s) used by trains for transportation)
- 2025 November 27, Renée Triolle, “La unua eŭropano, kiu vizitis Tibeton Alexandra David-Néel (1868-1969)”, in uea.facila[1], archived from the original on 23 December 2025:
- Ŝi finfine edziniĝis en 1904 al la ĉefa inĝeniero de la tuniziaj fervojoj, Philippe Néel, kiam ŝi kantis ĉe la operejo de Tunizo.
- She finally got married in 1904 to the chief engineer of the Tunisian railways, Philippe Néel, when she sang at the opera house of Tunis.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Neves; Pabst (2022), “voj/”, in Historia Vortaro de Esperanto, →ISBN, pages 903-904
Further reading
[edit]Monolingual dictionaries
- “fervojo”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
- “fervojo”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026
- “fervojo”, in Praktika Bildvortaro de Esperanto[2], Oxford University Press, 1979, →ISBN, page 41
Multilingual dictionaries
- Wells, John C. (1992), “rail”, in Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary[3], →ISBN, page 348
- Benson, Peter J. (1995), “rail”, in Comprehensive English-Esperanto Dictionary[4], →ISBN, page 417
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- Esperanto terms calqued from German
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- Esperanto 3-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Esperanto/ojo
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- Esperanto GCSE7
- eo:Rail transportation
