motherhood
‘the state of being a mother’
mother+-hoodST
-hood — abstract state
The same meaning in all five languages
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Hindi
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Stem
mother
maternité
मातृ
మాతృ
தாய்
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English
motherhood
mother+-hoodabstract state
French
maternité
maternité
Hindi
मातृत्वmātr̥tva
मातृ+-त्वabstract state
Telugu
మాతృత్వంmātr̥tvaṁ
మాతృ+-త్వంabstract state
Tamil
தாய்மைtāymai
தாய்+-மைabstract state
- मातृत्वHindi⟷మాతృత్వంTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
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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
02Its meaning ('the state of being a mother') is represented as STATE_OF(HAVE(CHILD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:CHILD
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