Re: Untranslatable words

Ray Brown wrote:

> On Wednesday, June 23, 2004, at 05:00 , Peter Bleackley wrote:
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>> The most untranslatable words from other languages
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> [snip]
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>> altahmam Arabic for a kind of deep sadness
>> gezellig Dutch for cozy
>> saudade Portuguese for a certain type of longing
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> Welsh:
> _hiraeth_ both an expectant longing for what is to come & a nostalgia for
> what is past and gone.
>
> _hwyl_ /hujl/ - mood, atmosphere, emotion etc. What one may experience
> listening to a great orator, being in the Millennium Stadium at Cardiff
> when Wales are playing, hearing great music etc, etc.
>
> Neither word has a single English equivalent. Indeed, the two words not
> infrequently occur in the _English_ of more or less monoglot English
> speakers in Wales.

Those are quite amazing words.  I must use them at some point.