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_Bobby_ (User's profile) December 21, 2020, 3:28:06 AM
Let me start by saying I am brand new to esperanto...less than two months actually...but I am reallt enjoying learning the language. So I amuse myself by looking up various esperanto words. Recently I was searchinf for "barn" and found "grenejo" and "garbejo" so my question is which it? Or what does each translate to in English?
sergejm (User's profile) December 21, 2020, 5:58:39 AM
Garbejo estas loko kie oni tenas garbon.
Grenejo is the place they put greno.
Garbejo is the place they put garbo.
Greno is the plant or its eaten part, they make faruno on muelejo(mill)
Garbo is fasko of the plants, they need draŝi(to thresh) to get greno
Metsis (User's profile) December 21, 2020, 8:48:49 AM
to store crops
- Grenejo is the place to put greno.
- Garbejo is the place to put garbo.
- Fojnejo is the place to put fojno.
- Veturilejo is the place to store vehicles. (← veturi + ilo + ejo)
- Garaĝo is the place to store or repait vehicles, (← garage)
- stok(ej)o, magazeno, provizejo, varejo
Note, that you may perceive a clear difference, say, for you a barn is only for storing crops and never for agricultural machinery, but that may not hold everywhere. So I recommend to take a word and add an explanation to make it clear what you mean by that, for instance
- En la bieno de miaj geavoj estis grenejo por stoki grenoj, sed nenia veturilejo.
_Bobby_ (User's profile) December 21, 2020, 12:51:51 PM
So to continue questioning so could a barn for livestock be "bestejo"?
nornen (User's profile) December 21, 2020, 2:11:31 PM
Let me see, which words I would you if I had to give a tour in Esperanto to the place I spent part of my childhood.
There were three main buildings, the house, the stable and the barn.
The house would be the "domo". Originally half of the ground floor was the pigsty [1] but had been converted into a garage and the heater room. However, it was still referred to as the pigsty because old habits die hard, and in Esperanto I would say either "porkejo" or "porkstalo".
The stable would be the "stalo". It actually didn't contain any animals, but cars, a work shop and storage (for instance the broken oil pump of a 1963 VW, you never know if you might still need it, you never know! Never throw anything away). However as it once was for cattle, we still called it the stable and I would call it the "stalo". Between house and stable there was the dung heap and the cesspit, which I would call the "sterkejo" and the "sterkfosaĵo".
The barn was a three storey building (but only one ceiling between ground and first floor). On the ground floor there was the tractor and a trailer (which for some reasons was called the "rubber cart", maybe because it was the first trailer with rubber wheels my grandfather had), as well as some machinery (wood splitter, saws, wood chipper, etc) and on the first/second floor hay and straw. This building I would call the "fojnejo".
Now to the lean-tos (apparently buildings evolve and have a tendency to bud lean-ons over time). The chicken coop was a lean-to to the stable and I would call it "kokejo". We stored fire wood in a lean-to to the barn, which I would call the "lignejo". Then there was another smaller lean-to to the stable where we stored chipped wood, which I might call the "lignetejo" or "lignerejo".
Maybe 2 kilometres away, we had a "hall" for heavy machinery: loader, backhoe, etc. I would call this the "maŝinejo". Next to it there were two tower silos and two drench silos (all for (fermented) silage and not grain), which I would call "siloj", maybe "altsiloj" kaj "ebensiloj".
So to continue questioning so could a barn for livestock be "bestejo"?It very well could and I personally would understand it immediately. You can also specify further (for species: ) porkejo, bovejo, kokejo... or (for function: ) melkejo, bredejo... There is also the word "stalo" for stable.
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[1] Which is quite normal in this region. The idea was that the heat from the pigs heated at least a bit the rooms on the first floor.
_Bobby_ (User's profile) December 22, 2020, 1:45:49 PM
For me. I just recently built a barn onbthe fround floor is housing for goats sheep and chickens as needed. As well it serves as place to shear the sheep and may include a milking parlor for the goats the loft is for hay storage. So you see it is a multi functional barn so finding one word to describe it is hard. Any of the words will work and will at least impart some of what it is to those that speak esperanto. Thank you all for helping me understand the differences
sudanglo (User's profile) December 26, 2020, 2:30:59 PM
Though maybe 'grenejo' has established itself as an equivalent, through usage, just as lernejo (through usage) is (without qualification) a school and not any place where learning goes on.
Barn:
a large farm building used for storing grain, hay, or straw or for housing livestock.
If 'grenejo' or garbejo seem too specific, why not farm-ŝedo or ŝedego
However a number of languages do seem to have a word for barn derived from the idea of grain - French Grange; Spanish Granero; English Barn from Barley - and if you had asked me for an Esperanto translation of Barn, I have to confess that I would have said grenejo without thinking.
Close that door! Were you born in a barn? Fermu la pordon! Ĉu vi naskiĝis en ŝedego?
Metsis (User's profile) December 30, 2020, 11:17:13 AM
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sudanglo (User's profile) January 2, 2021, 1:36:31 PM
Ĉar ŝedo estas verŝajne prunto de la angla lingvo kaj ne estas similforma vorto en aliaj lingvoj eble denaska anglalingvano rajtas pontifi pri kio estas ŝedo kaj kio ne.
Sheds in English can be small like a garden shed, or large such as a railway shed.where whole locomotives may be parked.
However in Esperanto we can distinguish between a ŝedo (kaban-granda) and ŝedego which might be barn-size.
Size does seem to be a defining feature of a barn.
It wouldn't always be necessary to add the augmentative suffix, for example, anybody is going to understand that a fervoja ŝedo (trajn-ŝedo)will be large and a bicikla ŝedo at a school might provide shelter for many bicycles.
On the other hand a ĝardenila ŝedo would be assumed to be small.
If you don't like farm-ŝedo perhaps agrikultura ŝedo will do nicely for a barn.
Metsis (User's profile) January 4, 2021, 2:37:23 PM