Esperanto · 24 August 2026
A word a day week
hundo
HUN-do · /ˈhundo/ · noun
- dog
The Germanic hound family becomes the everyday Esperanto word for any dog, not merely a hunting one.
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Where it came from
GermanHund
Esperantohundo
Esperanto hundo closely follows German Hund, with the regular Esperanto noun ending -o.
- German Hund
- English hound
- Dutch hond
Tiny sentence
La hundo dormas.
the dog sleep.PRS
“The dog sleeps.”
No indefinite article is needed; la is the definite article, and dormas is present tense.
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The German model is especially transparent, while cognates elsewhere in Germanic help explain why the root felt international.