simplify
‘make simple’
simple+-ifyCAUS
-ify — causative
The same meaning in all five languages
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Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
simple
simple
सरल
సులభం
எளிமை
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learned
learned
Sanskritic
mixed
native
French
simplifier
simple+-ifiercausative
Hindi
Telugu
సులభపరచుsulabhaparacu
సులభం+-పరచుcausative
Tamil
எளிமைப்படுத்துeḷimaippaṭuttu
எளிமை+-ப்படுத்துcausative
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01simplify is an English verb formed from the stem simple with the suffix -ify (causative).3 steps
- rulerule:morphology-chain
- affixaffix:en:-ify
- rulerule:segmentation-confidence:1.0
02Its meaning ('make simple') can be approximated as CAUSE(BECOME(SMALL)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:SMALL
03Aligned forms: French simplifier (translation equivalent); Hindi सरल बनाना (saral banānā) (translation equivalent); Tamil எளிமைப்படுத்து (eḷimaippaṭuttu) (translation equivalent); Telugu సులభపరచు (sulabhaparacu) (translation equivalent).1 step
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