sugar
‘sweet crystalline substance’
simplex — no productive affix
The same meaning in all five languages
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sugar
sucre
चीनी
शक्कर
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- शक्करHindi⟷சர்க்கரைTamil· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
- शक्करHindi⟷చక్కెరTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
- சர்க்கரைTamil⟷చక్కెరTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
How the graph explains it
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01sugar is an English noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('sweet crystalline substance') can be approximated as HAVE(SOMETHING, HAVE(FEEL, GOOD)) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.4 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:SOMETHING
- atomatom:FEEL
- atomatom:GOOD
03sugar is borrowed from Old French sucre ‘sugar’ (confidence 0.90).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:sugar-fr-en0.90
- sourceoed0.90
04Aligned forms: French sucre (translation equivalent); Hindi चीनी (cīnī) (translation equivalent); Hindi शक्कर (śakkar) (translation equivalent); Tamil சர்க்கரை (carkkarai) (translation equivalent); Telugu చక్కెర (cakkera) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment
Where it came from
Full lineage graph →- sucreOld French— borrowed →sugar acceptedoed0.90