the sun
HAVE(SEE, ABOVE, BIG)Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
sun
soleil
सूरज
సూర్యుడు
சூரியன்
Register
native
native
native
Sanskritic
Sanskritic
English
sun
sun
French
soleil
soleil
Hindi
सूरजsūraj
सूरज
Telugu
సూర్యుడుsūryuḍu
సూర్యుడు
Tamil
சூரியன்cūriyaṉ
சூரியன்
- சூரியன்Tamil⟷సూర్యుడుTelugu· 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.