नाम
nām‘label of a person or thing’
simplex — no productive affix
The same meaning in all five languages
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name
nom
नाम
పేరు
பெயர்
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- 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 whyThese sentences are assembled from graph facts by a deterministic template engine — not written by hand, and not authoritative.
01नाम (nām) is a Hindi noun with no productive affixal segmentation (simplex).1 step
- rulerule:simplex
02Its meaning ('label of a person or thing') can be approximated as NAME in the Suffeffix atom interlingua.2 steps
- rulerule:atom-structure
- atomatom:NAME
03नाम is inherited from Sanskrit नामन् nāman ‘name’ (confidence 0.70).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:name-skt-hi0.70
- sourcecdial0.70
04नाम is cognate with en name (confidence 0.85).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:name-cog0.85
- sourcewatkins0.85
05नाम is cognate with fr nom (confidence 0.85).3 steps
- rulerule:etymology-hop
- edgeedge:name-cog-fr-hi0.85
- sourcewatkins0.85
06Aligned forms: English name (cognate); French nom (cognate); Tamil பெயர் (peyar) (translation equivalent); Telugu పేరు (pēru) (translation equivalent).1 step
- rulerule:alignment
Where it came from
Full lineage graph →- नामन् nāmanSanskrit— inherited →नाम acceptedcdial0.70
- nameEnglish— cognate →नाम acceptedwatkins0.85
- nomFrench— cognate →नाम acceptedwatkins0.85