English · adjective

lifeless

‘without life’
life+-lessPRIV

-less — privative

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
lifeless
life+-lessprivative
French
inanimé
animé+in-privative
Tamil
உயிரற்றuyiraṟṟa
உயிர்+-அற்றprivative
  • निर्जीवHindi⟷నిర్జీవంTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source

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  1. 01lifeless is an English adjective formed from the stem life with the suffix -less (privative).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:en:-less
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('without life') is represented as NEG(LIVE) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: French inanimé (translation equivalent); Hindi निर्जीव (nirjīv) (translation equivalent); Tamil உயிரற்ற (uyiraṟṟa) (translation equivalent); Telugu నిర్జీవం (nirjīvaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment