English · adjective

fearless

‘without fear’
fear+-lessPRIV

-less — privative

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
fearless
fear+-lessprivative
French
intrépide
trépide+in-privative
Tamil

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  1. 01fearless is an English adjective formed from the stem fear with the suffix -less (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:en:-less
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('without fear') is represented as NEG(HAVE(FEAR)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: French intrépide (translation equivalent); Hindi निर्भय (nirbhay) (translation equivalent); Tamil அச்சமற்ற (accamaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu భయంలేని (bhayaṁlēni) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment