Peter:
The "core meaning" (which I think you introduced in this discussion) ...
... goes back to our discussions on whether or not lexemes have basically one meaning or many. As for me, I still maintain that lexemes have one basic meaning for each time period, but that they can change over time. Also we need to keep in mind complex lexemes (where two or more lexemes used consistently together can have its own meaning separate from each component lexeme) and idiomatic phrases.
That one meaning may have a broad semantic use, or narrow one, or may even be a total subset of another one, but that doesn't change the basic pattern.
This is the way people use language.
Translators often find that the semantic range of one lexeme in an originating language may overlap two or more semantic ranges in a receiving language, hence an accurate translation can use two or more lexemes to render the meaning of the originating language. But that's a problem of translation, not language use.
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Likewise, I think your view of (WLM is too narrow.
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