Esperanto · 31 August 2026
A word a day week
birdo
BIR-do · /ˈbirdo/ · noun
- bird
English bird receives one extra vowel and the regular -o that tells every Esperantist it is a noun.
Borrowed luggage
Where it came from
Englishbird
Esperantobirdo
Birdo is transparently modelled on English bird and adapted to Esperanto’s pronounce-every-letter pattern.
- English bird
Tiny sentence
Birdo flugas.
bird fly.PRS
“A bird flies.”
Esperanto has no indefinite article. Context supplies the natural English ‘a’.
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Sources and cautions
This is one of Esperanto’s unusually obvious English-looking roots; the morphological ending still makes it fully Esperanto.