Contribuții/Mesaje: 6
Limbă: English
RaimundoCEO (Arată profil) 11 ianuarie 2016, 18:16:20
What is the meaning of the word `eblo`? and when I use 'ebleco' or 'eblajo'?
erinja (Arată profil) 11 ianuarie 2016, 22:41:58
Eblo is a possibility. Ebleco technically means "a quality of something that is possible" but in practical use, people use it mostly interchangeably with "eblo". Some might say that "ebleco" is a word that you shouldn't use because to add -ec- to eblo is redundant.
Alkanadi (Arată profil) 12 ianuarie 2016, 08:10:32
RaimundoCEO:Saluton.Eblo = something possible
What is the meaning of the word `eblo`? and when I use 'ebleco' or 'eblajo'?
Ebleco = something possible
eblajxo = I don't know. It appears only 3 times in the tekstaro. I would avoid it.
I would just stick to eblo.
sudanglo
- Arată profil
- Țară: Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și al Irlandei de Nord
- Contribuții/Mesaje: 5731
sudanglo (Arată profil) 12 ianuarie 2016, 12:26:29
Use 'ebleco' when you wish to emphasise the abstract quality might be a good rule - reserving 'eblo' for some more concrete possibility.
Perhaps it is relevant to note here that, historically, there has been a tendency in the evolution of Esperanto to cut down on affixation when you can achieve the meaning with a simpler form.
opalo (Arată profil) 14 ianuarie 2016, 17:20:35
Because of the influence of ebla ("possible" ), it is frequently used for "possibility" in the sense of "possible situation".
However Zamenhof fairly consistently used eblo for "the means to do something" or "opportunity"—not quite the same—like povo but more passive. This suggests that kontakteblo would be "method of contact" and so forth, rather than "contactability" (kontaktebleco).
As erinja says, ebleco can only mean "possibility" in the sense of "quality of being possible" and eblaĵo is a "possible thing".
lagtendisto (Arată profil) 16 ianuarie 2016, 13:08:04
sudanglo:Useful phrase - mi faris mian eblon. 'Ebleco' would sound strange here.But 'Mi faris laux miajn eblojn' could be fine?