sweet crystalline substance
HAVE(SOMETHING, HAVE(FEEL, GOOD))Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
sugar
sucre
चीनी
शक्कर
చక్కెర
சர்க்கரை
Register
native
native
native
native
native
Sanskritic
- शक्करHindi⟷சர்க்கரைTamil· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
- शक्करHindi⟷చక్కెరTelugu· shared loan — both borrowed from the same source
- சர்க்கரைTamil⟷చక్కెరTelugu· 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.