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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Sources and cautions

The German model is especially transparent, while cognates elsewhere in Germanic help explain why the root felt international.