Download - Words We Don't Have in English
English Language
Words for everything?
By some accounts, there are one-million words in the English language
By some estimates, someone with a university education understandings about 20,000 words
A few examples from
Alba
In Italian The day you leave prison after
serving a sentence.
Ajane
In Tulu (a language in India) The noise of a thief
kyoikumama
In Japanese A woman who makes her children
study so that they will do well academically.
Dejar con el paquete
Spanish Abandoning a woman you
have made pregnant Literally: To drop with the
parcel
biodegradabile
In Italian Someone who falls in love easily and
often
Leibestod
In German Dying for love
Pau heoheo
In Hawaiian A person who returns from fishing
without any fish
And some silly examples from
Meaning of Liff
This silly book takes the names of small towns and attaches them to concepts without words
Epsom (n)
An entry in a dairy (such as a date or set of initials) which you don’t have any idea what is doing there.
Ewelme (n)
The smile bestowed on you by an air hostess
Foping (v)
Refusing the say what you’re looking so bloody wistful about
Kerry (n)
The small twist of skin that separates each sausage in a string
Some of our own
A word for?
A door that closes too quickly
A word for?
A freshly washed dog
A word for?
A chip that is just warm enough to still eat
A word for?
Water too cold to swim in
Finally
List five concepts in English that don’t have a word in their own (but you think they should)