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Esperanto
Etymology
From al- + salti.
Pronunciation
Verb
alsalti (present alsaltas, past alsaltis, future alsaltos, conditional alsaltus, volitive alsaltu)
- to jump up to, jump out; to pounce (on)
- Lydia Zamenhof (translator), Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz, Part 2, Chapter 56,
- La retisto dume jen alsaltis al li, jen forsaltis, farante per sia tridenta forkego movojn tiel rapidajn, ke la homa rigardo apenaŭ povis ilin sekvi.
- The retiarius meanwhile sprang up to him, then sprang away, making with his three-toothed fork motions so quick that the eye hardly followed them.
- Gary Mickle (translator), Ĉe la koro de la tero (At the Earth’s Core) by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Chapter 6,
- Aliaj sagotoj sagis tien kaj aliloken por serĉi aliajn sklavojn, kaj tuj kiam ni aperis, oni alsaltis nin kaj ŝovis nin en la vicon de marŝantaj homoj.
- Other Sagoths were darting hither and thither in search of other slaves, and the moment that we appeared we were pounced upon and hustled into the line of marching humans.
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