English · adjective

homeless

‘without a home’
home+-lessPRIV

-less — privative

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homeless
home+-lessprivative
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  1. 01homeless is an English adjective formed from the stem home with the suffix -less (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:en:-less
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('without a home') is represented as NEG(HAVE(HAVE(WHERE, LIVE))) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: French sans-abri (translation equivalent); Hindi बेघर (beghar) (translation equivalent); Tamil வீடற்ற (vīṭaṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu ఇల్లులేని (illulēni) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment