childhood
‘the state or period of being a child’
child+-hoodST
-hood — abstract state
The same meaning in all five languages
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child
enfant
बच्चा
పిల్ల
குழந்தை
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01childhood is an English noun formed from the stem child with the suffix -hood (abstract state).3 steps
- rulerule:morphology-chain
- affixaffix:en:-hood
- rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
02Its meaning ('the state or period of being a child') is represented as STATE_OF(CHILD) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:CHILD
03Aligned forms: French enfance (translation equivalent); Hindi बचपन (bacpan) (translation equivalent); Tamil குழந்தைப்பருவம் (kuḻantaipparuvam) (translation equivalent); Telugu పిల్లతనం (pillatanaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment