one who trades
AGENT_OF(HAVE(DO, HAVE(SOMETHING)))Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
merchant
marchand
व्यापार
వ్యాపారి
வணிகர்
Register
learned
native
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
English
merchant
merchant
French
marchand
marchand
Hindi
व्यापारीvyāpārī
व्यापार+-ईagent
Telugu
వ్యాపారిvyāpāri
వ్యాపారి
Tamil
வணிகர்vaṇikar
வணிகர்
Built from these atoms
The decomposition is a coarse approximation — semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.