mother
‘female parent’
simplex — no productive affix
The same meaning in all five languages
Open the meaning → English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
mother
mère
माता
అమ్మ
அம்மா
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native
Sanskritic
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native
- motherEnglish⟷mèreFrench· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- motherEnglish⟷माताHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- mèreFrench⟷माताHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- அம்மாTamil⟷అమ్మTelugu· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
How the graph explains it
generated by named rules · open a sentence to see whyThese sentences are assembled from graph facts by a deterministic template engine — not written by hand, and not authoritative.
01mother is an English noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('female parent') can be approximated as SOMEONE in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:SOMEONE
03mother is inherited from Old English mōdor ‘mother’ (confidence 0.95).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:mother-oe-en0.95
- sourceoed0.95
04माता is cognate with en mother (confidence 0.85).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:mother-cog0.85
- sourcewatkins0.85
05mother is cognate with fr mère (confidence 0.85).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:mother-cog-fr-en0.85
- sourcewatkins0.85
06Aligned forms: French mère (cognate); Hindi माता (mātā) (cognate); Tamil அம்மா (ammā) (translation equivalent); Telugu అమ్మ (amma) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment
Where it came from
Full lineage graph →- mōdorOld English— inherited →mother acceptedoed0.95
- motherEnglish— cognate →माता acceptedwatkins0.85
- mèreFrench— cognate →mother acceptedwatkins0.85