Kiel ĉiujas Haloveno en Usono

How do you say “trick or treat” in Esperanto?

Explaining Halloween to her audience, this creator admits Esperanto has no fixed phrase for “trick or treat,” so she tries out one candidate proposed by a fellow creator: “Minaco aŭ Donaco” — literally “threat or gift.” She’s explicit that the Esperanto phrase “ne estas tute decidita” — “isn’t fully settled” — presenting it as one YouTuber’s suggestion, not an official or established translation.

American trick-or-treating simply doesn’t map onto a Zamenhof-era vocabulary built in 1887 Europe, so covering a foreign holiday means the language has to improvise on the spot — the same live-coinage moment as amoro for “ASMR” elsewhere in this batch. It’s the culturally specific, recently imported concepts that still need a group decision, not the older, more universal ones.