===== primes not covered yet =======

time  
WHEN/TIME, NOW, ...., A LONG TIME, A SHORT TIME, FOR SOME TIME, MOMENT 
space  
WHERE/PLACE, [need relativizer particle]
; SIDE 


descriptors  
, (LONG) [& tall, wide, thick, heavy...?]


...other possibles:

individuator (all > each, one > one apiece, any > some?)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_semantic_metalanguage

===== Semantic primes =======
substantives  
I, YOU, SOMEONE, PEOPLE, SOMETHING/THING, BODY 
mental predicates  
THINK, KNOW, WANT, FEEL, SEE, HEAR 
speech  
SAY, WORD, TRUE 
actions, events and movement  
DO, HAPPEN, MOVE 
existence and possession  
THERE IS, HAVE 
life and death  
LIVE, DIE 
time  
WHEN/TIME, NOW, BEFORE, AFTER, A LONG TIME, A SHORT TIME, FOR SOME TIME, MOMENT 
space  
WHERE/PLACE, HERE, ABOVE, BELOW; FAR, NEAR; SIDE, INSIDE; TOUCHING 
"logical" concepts  
NOT, MAYBE, CAN, BECAUSE, IF 
intensifier  
VERY 
augmentor  
MORE 
quantifiers  
ONE, TWO, SOME, ALL, MANY/MUCH 
evaluators  
GOOD, BAD 
descriptors  
BIG, SMALL, (LONG) 
taxonomy, partonomy  
KIND OF, PART OF; 
similarity  
LIKE 
determiners  
THIS, THE SAME, OTHER