hard mouth part
HAVE(PART, BODY)Hypothesis
English
Germanic
French
Romance
Hindi
Indo-Aryan
Telugu
South-Central
Tamil
South
Stem
tooth
dent
दाँत
పల్లు
பல்
Register
native
native
native
native
native
- toothEnglish⟷dentFrench· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- toothEnglish⟷दाँतHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- dentFrench⟷दाँतHindi· cognates — inherited from one common ancestor
- பல்Tamil⟷పల్లుTelugu· 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.