Spawning Tables

[Victor Subervi]

Hi;
I'm going to build a translation s/w and I'd like some advice. Many
languages have compound words. I'd like to build a table that shows the
component words. However, it depends on the compound word as to how many
components it has! Now, I could take a "safe" guess and limit it to, say, 4
words. But then I'm wasting a lot of storage. So I thought I'd spawn a
mini-table for each compound word. Is that the best way to handle this?
TIA,
Victor