English · noun

beauty

‘the state of being beautiful’
simplex — no productive affix

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
beauty
beauty
French
beauté
beau+-téabstract state
Hindi
सुंदरताsundartā
सुंदर+-ताabstract state
Telugu
అందంandaṁ
అందం
Tamil
அழகுaḻaku
அழகு

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  1. 01beauty is an English noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
    • rulerule:simplex
  2. 02Its meaning ('the state of being beautiful') can be approximated as STATE_OF(HAVE(SEE, GOOD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03beauty is borrowed from Old French biauté ‘beauty’ (confidence 0.90).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:beauty-of-en0.90
    • sourceoed0.90
  4. 04Aligned forms: French beauté (translation equivalent); Hindi सुंदरता (sundartā) (translation equivalent); Tamil அழகு (aḻaku) (translation equivalent); Telugu అందం (andaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment

Where it came from

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  1. biautéOld French— borrowed →beauty accepted
    oed0.90