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= Loan words in Esperanto = Esperanto being a constructed language is built with loan words. Large contributions to Esperanto are romance, slavic, and germanic languages. Esperanto's grammar is the only thing that alters the original root word in some cases as in (Hundo from the German Hund) the word is only changed by the Esperanto -o used with every noun. Some words on the other hand only use roots and the rest of the word may be of a different origin such as registaro (government), which is derived from the Latinate root reg (to rule) but has a morphology closer to German or Russian.

Loan words
Esperantos creatior Ludwik Van Zammenhof used words from English, French, German, Greek, Russian, and Yiddish. Many other words came from the respective families of these languages due to Zammenhofs exposure to many of these languages in a small area.

English
Boato- boat

ŝtono- stone

French
Maro- sea

Manĝas- eat

German
hundo

Greek
Kaj

Pri

Russian
Domo

Yiddish
Hejmo

Fajfi

Latin
sed (but),

tamen (however),

post (after),

kvankam (although),

kvazaŭ (as though),

dum (during),

nek (nor),

aŭ (or),

hodiaŭ (today),

abio (fir),

ardeo (heron),

iri (to go—though this form survives in the French future),

ronki (to snore),

(frost)