a star
HAVE(SEE, ABOVE, FAR)Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
star
étoile
तारा
నక్షత్రం
நட்சத்திரம்
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native
native
native
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
English
star
star
French
étoile
étoile
Hindi
ताराtārā
तारा
Telugu
నక్షత్రంnakṣatraṁ
నక్షత్రం
Tamil
நட்சத்திரம்naṭcattiram
நட்சத்திரம்
- நட்சத்திரம்Tamil⟷నక్షత్రంTelugu· 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.