of the nation
HAVE(LIKE, HAVE(BIG, WHERE))Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
nation
nation
राष्ट्र
జాతి
தேசம்
Register
learned
learned
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
Hindi
राष्ट्रीयrāṣṭrīya
राष्ट्र+-ईयrelational adjective
Telugu
జాతీయమైనjātīyamaina
జాతి+-ఐనrelational adjective
Tamil
தேசியtēciya
தேசம்+-இயrelational adjective
Built from these atoms
The decomposition is a coarse approximation — semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.