karl,

i recommend you to read wittgenstein. he once dedicated a whole book (quite
meager, though, and i was using the bilingual edition...) to the meaning of
just one word: a chair. a word is not just a concept: a word is also a class
object, and people organize classes in different ways. for example, if you
define a chair as functional (a place to sit on), visual (four legs etc) or
status (to occupy a chair in acommittee) you get three distinct classes with
some intersection. see 2Kgs 15:12 where KS) is none of the above.

also, KS) is different than KS and MW$B? are they mere synonyms? all these
question need finer answers than just "chair".

also, take Isa 31:8-9 and try to translate NPL, XRB, T)KLNW, SL(, PNY, )WR,
MS, TNWR. none of them is what your one-word dictionary would say they are. 

things get worse when you try to encapsulate not just a word, lexeme etc, but
a whole root into a single word which will stand for all the words derived
from it.

nir cohen
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