French · noun

feu

‘fire’
simplex — no productive affix

The same meaning in all five languages

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English
fire
fire
French
feu
feu
Hindi
आगāg
आग
Telugu
నిప్పుnippu
నిప్పు
Tamil
நெருப்புneruppu
நெருப்பு

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  1. 01feu is a French noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
    • rulerule:simplex
  2. 02Its meaning ('fire') can be approximated as SOMETHING in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03feu is inherited from Latin focus ‘hearth’, with semantic metonymy (confidence 0.85).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:fire-la-fr0.85
    • sourcetlfi0.85
  4. 04Aligned forms: English fire (translation equivalent); Hindi आग (āg) (translation equivalent); Tamil நெருப்பு (neruppu) (translation equivalent); Telugu నిప్పు (nippu) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment

Where it came from

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  1. focusLatin— inherited →feumetonymy accepted
    tlfi0.85