water
‘water’
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
water
eau
पानी
నీరు
நீர்
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native
native
native
native
native
- நீர்Tamil⟷నీరుTelugu· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
How the graph explains it
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01water is an English noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('water') can be approximated as SOMETHING in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:SOMETHING
03Aligned forms: French eau (translation equivalent); Hindi पानी (pānī) (translation equivalent); Tamil நீர் (nīr) (translation equivalent); Telugu నీరు (nīru) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment