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WotD: scaffolding
- das Gerüst
- de steiger
- el andamio
- la bastida
- l'échafaudage
- y sgaffaldiau
- an scafalra
- rusztowanie
- 비계 (飛階)
- 腳手架 jiǎoshǒujià
The Sino-Korean word is literally "flying steps". By comparison, the contemporary Chinese is the prosaic "foot-hand-framework". With typical terseness, the DRAE describes andamio as a compound of andar "walk" and -amio, and I needed to go to Corominas to determine what the source of this suffix was. (He considers it a variant of -amo, found in only one other current word: aramio "field plowed and left fallow".)