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Take the syllable dde. It doesn't have a meaning yet. A no dde mil as, that means more or less "Let's go into the woods"; in that context dde is "woods." But if you say Dim a dde mil as, that means, more or less, "The tree stands beside the road": dde is "tree" and a is "road" instead of "go," and as is "beside" instead of "into." But then if that connotation group occurred inside other groups, it would change again—Hse vuy uno a dde mu as med as hro se se: "The travelers came through the desert where nothing grows." Now dde is "desert land," not "trees." And in o be k'a dde k'a, the syllable dde means "generous, giving freely"—nothing to do with trees at all, unless maybe metaphorically. The phrase means, more or less, "Thank you."
The range of meanings of a syllable isn't infinite, of course, but I don't think you could make a list of the possible or potential meanings. Not even a long