shopkeeper
‘one who keeps a shop’
simplex — no productive affix
The same meaning in all five languages
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Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
shop
boutique
दुकान
దుకాణం
கடை
Register
native
native
Perso-Arabic
Perso-Arabic
mixed
English
shopkeeper
shop
French
boutiquier
boutique+-ierhabitual agent
Hindi
दुकानदारdukāndār
दुकान+-दारhabitual agent
Telugu
దుకాణదారుడుdukāṇadāruḍu
దుకాణం+-దారుడుhabitual agent
Tamil
கடைக்காரர்kaṭaikkārar
கடை+-காரர்habitual agent
How the graph explains it
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01shopkeeper is an English noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('one who keeps a shop') can be approximated as AGENT_OF(HAVE(WHERE)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:WHERE
03Aligned forms: French boutiquier (translation equivalent); Hindi दुकानदार (dukāndār) (translation equivalent); Tamil கடைக்காரர் (kaṭaikkārar) (translation equivalent); Telugu దుకాణదారుడు (dukāṇadāruḍu) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment