English · noun

duckling

‘a young duck’
duck+-lingDIM

-ling — diminutive

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
duckling
duck+-lingdiminutive
French
caneton
cane+-ondiminutive
Hindinot lexicalised in the dataset
Telugunot lexicalised in the dataset

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  1. 01duckling is an English noun formed from the stem duck with the suffix -ling (diminutive).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:en:-ling
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('a young duck') can be approximated as HAVE(SMALL, LIVE) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: French caneton (translation equivalent); Tamil வாத்துக்குட்டி (vāttukkuṭṭi) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment