male ruler
HAVE(SOMEONE, HAVE(SAY, ALL))Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
king
roi
राजा
రాజు
அரசன்
Register
native
native
native
Sanskritic
native
- roiFrench⟷राजाHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- राजाHindi⟷రాజుTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
Built from these atoms
The decomposition is a coarse approximation — semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.