No. Not only because what's "basic" varies between languages, but because it's precisely the most "basic"-seeming lemmas that map most poorly between languages.

No. Not only because what's "basic" varies between languages, but because it's precisely the most "basic"-seeming lemmas that map most poorly between languages. Take the first ten "operations" of the Ogden list: come, get, give, go, keep, let, make, put, seem, take. Every one of these is the kind of word that has multiple non-interchangeable "synonyms" that you could use, depending on context. Expressing the "same" "concept" in another language is kind of like being forced to choose between them, when there's generally no 1:1 mapping.