the act of singing
EVENT_OF(HAVE(SAY, HAVE(LIKE, JOY)))Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
sing
chanter
गायन
పాడు
பாடு
Register
native
native
Sanskritic
native
native
French
chant
chanter
Hindi
गायनgāyan
गायन
Telugu
పాడడంpāḍaḍaṁ
పాడు+-డంevent / result noun
Tamil
பாடுதல்pāṭutal
பாடு+-தல்event / result noun
Built from these atoms
The decomposition is a coarse approximation — semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.