English · noun

motherhood

‘the state of being a mother’
mother+-hoodST

-hood — abstract state

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
motherhood
mother+-hoodabstract state
French
maternité
maternité
Hindi
Telugu
Tamil
தாய்மைtāymai
தாய்+-மைabstract state
  • मातृत्वHindi⟷మాతృత్వంTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source

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  1. 01motherhood is an English noun formed from the stem mother with the suffix -hood (abstract state).3 steps
    • rulerule:morphology-chain
    • affixaffix:en:-hood
    • rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
  2. 02Its meaning ('the state of being a mother') is represented as STATE_OF(HAVE(CHILD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03Aligned forms: French maternité (translation equivalent); Hindi मातृत्व (mātr̥tva) (translation equivalent); Tamil தாய்மை (tāymai) (translation equivalent); Telugu మాతృత్వం (mātr̥tvaṁ) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment