French · noun

nom

‘label of a person or thing’
simplex — no productive affix

The same meaning in all five languages

Open the meaning →
English
name
name
French
nom
nom
Hindi
नामnām
नाम
Telugu
పేరుpēru
పేరు
Tamil
பெயர்peyar
பெயர்
  • nameEnglish⟷nomFrench· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
  • nameEnglish⟷नामHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
  • nomFrench⟷नामHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
  • பெயர்Tamil⟷పేరుTelugu· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor

How the graph explains it

generated by named rules · open a sentence to see why

These sentences are assembled from graph facts by a deterministic template engine — not written by hand, and not authoritative.

  1. 01nom is a French noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
    • rulerule:simplex
  2. 02Its meaning ('label of a person or thing') can be approximated as NAME in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
  3. 03nom is inherited from Latin nōmen ‘name’ (confidence 0.90).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:name-la-fr0.90
    • sourcetlfi0.90
  4. 04name is cognate with fr nom (confidence 0.85).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:name-cog-fr-en0.85
    • sourcewatkins0.85
  5. 05नाम is cognate with fr nom (confidence 0.85).3 steps
    • rulerule:etymology-hop
    • edgeedge:name-cog-fr-hi0.85
    • sourcewatkins0.85
  6. 06Aligned forms: English name (cognate); Hindi नाम (nām) (cognate); Tamil பெயர் (peyar) (translation equivalent); Telugu పేరు (pēru) (translation equivalent).1 step
    • rulerule:alignment

Where it came from

Full lineage graph →
  1. nōmenLatin— inherited →nom accepted
    tlfi0.90
  2. nomFrench— cognate →name accepted
    watkins0.85
  3. nomFrench— cognate →नाम accepted
    watkins0.85