marchand
‘one who trades’
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
merchant
marchand
व्यापार
వ్యాపారి
வணிகர்
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learned
native
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
English
merchant
merchant
French
marchand
marchand
Hindi
व्यापारीvyāpārī
व्यापार+-ईagent
Telugu
వ్యాపారిvyāpāri
వ్యాపారి
Tamil
வணிகர்vaṇikar
வணிகர்
How the graph explains it
generated by named rules · open a sentence to see whyThese sentences are assembled from graph facts by a deterministic template engine — not written by hand, and not authoritative.
01marchand is a French noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('one who trades') can be approximated as AGENT_OF(HAVE(DO, HAVE(SOMETHING))) in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.3 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:DO
- atomatom:SOMETHING
03marchand is inherited from Old French marchant ‘merchant’ (confidence 0.85).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:merchant-of-fr0.85
- sourcetlfi0.85
04Aligned forms: English merchant (translation equivalent); Hindi व्यापारी (vyāpārī) (translation equivalent); Tamil வணிகர் (vaṇikar) (translation equivalent); Telugu వ్యాపారి (vyāpāri) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment
Where it came from
Full lineage graph →- marchantOld French— inherited →marchand acceptedtlfi0.85