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This Basic Esperanto-English Dictionary consists of words from two sources. The first is the word list that appeared in the first issue of
Kontakto for 1984 (volume 83). Kontakto is the bi-monthly magazine published by UEA (Universal Esperanto-Asocio) and TEJO
(Tutmonda Esperantista Junulara Organizo -- Worldwide Esperanto
Youth Organisation) and in each issue there are articles written
in three basic levels: Beginners or Basic (for which it is assumed that the reader has mastered at least 520 root-words in
the language plus the basic grammar), Basic Intermediate (up to
1000 roots) and Intermediate-Advanced. Articles written for
the third level contain short vocabulary lists at the end of the
articles for words that may be new etc.
The second source is the vocabulary found in the book:
ESPERANTO: The Solution to our Language Problems (Esperanto
Press, Bailieboro, Ontario, ed. Rudiger Eichholz, ISBN
0-919186-16-5). This book is a collection of articles, (both in
Esperanto and side-by-side bilingual English/Esperanto) by UEA
Research and Documentation Centre, London/Rotterdam. This small
vocabulary (approximately 1400 roots) is more than adequate to
supply a working root lexicon to enable one to read with ease any
publications in Esperanto. Together with the list of affixes
(which potentially build any basic root vocabulary more than ten-
fold, there is at your disposal many thousands of words, the majority of which are easily recognizable by persons speaking or
having studied English or latin-based languages.
There are seven vocabulary links on this page listed below: firstly,
the Esperanto Word List contains a list of over 1900 Esperanto root-words with no
English translations; this file has been left like this for those who, not speaking English as a first language, might compile a
lexicon in their own language for use on electronic databases. There are also four links comprising sections of an Esperanto-English Lexicon which I've compiled for general use. And finally, there are two further links: one dealing with the word-building affixes and one with the correlative words.
In the lexicon files, you will note that almost all the words have a single quote (')
at the end of them: this is to show that they are ROOTS and that
they will always have a gramatical ending of some kind (to
indicate a verb tense, nominative or adjectival status etc.). Those without the hyphen are stand alone words (prepositions,
conjunctions etc.) that in some instances can also take endings.
Definitions of the words in English are, for the most part, as
they are translated in the Esperanto-English Dictionary of E.A.
Milledge (Esperanto Publishing Co.1956)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FORMAT USED TO INDICATE ACCENTED CONSONENTS (C,G H,J,AND S) IS THAT FORMAT PROPOSED IN THE BASIC GRAMMAR OF
THE LANGUAGE, COMPOSED BY THE CREATOR, L.L. ZAMENHOF: I.E. THAT
AN "H" IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWS THE LETTER THAT IS ACCENTED, IN THE
PLACE OF THE CIRCUMFLEX. THE ACCENTED "U" IS NOT INDICATED, AS A
"U" APPEARING AFTER EITHER AN "A" OR AN "E" IS ALWAYS ACCENTED
(UNLESS THAT "A" OR "E" OR OTHER VOWEL IS PART OF A VERB ROOT,
LIKE: obe' (to obey); obeu IS THE IMPERATIVE FORM OF THE VERB). A
"U" APPEARING ALONE BETWEEN CONSONENTS NEVER HAS AN ACCENT.
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