the number three
MANYHypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
three
trois
तीन
మూడు
மூன்று
Register
native
native
native
native
native
- threeEnglish⟷troisFrench· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- threeEnglish⟷तीनHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- troisFrench⟷तीनHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- மூன்றுTamil⟷మూడుTelugu· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
Built from these atoms
The decomposition is a coarse approximation — semantic atoms are an engineering interlingua, not a theory of human cognition.