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Em PT, ocorre-me «impávido/a/os/as», porque ninguém diz «pávido» mas existe. Um sinónimo formidável é «impertérrito» mas o contrário será «contérrito».   In EN, do check out this wonderful shortest of stories by Jack Winter , as published by The New Yorker eons ago. Also, "Orphaned, Unpaired, or Backformed: A Journey Through the Peculiar Lexical Evolution of Some English Words" by Alia Pugh .    IT had been a rough day, so when I walked into the party I was very chalant, despite my efforts to appear gruntled and consolate. I was furling my wieldy umbrella for the coat check when I saw her standing alone in a corner. She was a descript person, a woman in a state of total array. Her hair was kempt, her clothing shevelled, and she moved in a gainly way. I wanted desperately to meet her, but I knew I’d have to make bones about it, since I was travelling cognito. Beknownst to me, the hostess, whom I could see both hide and hair of, was very proper, so it would be skin of...

Let's check these many illustrated by Anjana Iyer , for the Found in Translation project.  Backpfeifengesicht – DE – A face badly in need of a fist. (Em PT, somos negativos e depreciativos, a pessoa nem tem cara para levar um estalo / um soco.) Iktsuarpok – Inuit – The frustration of waiting for someone to turn up. (We have seen this one before, but with another translation: “The sense of anticipation as you wait for someone to visit.”) Tingo – Pascuense / Rapa Nui – To gradually steal all the possessions out of a neighbour's house by borrowing and not returning. (We have seen this one before, but with another translation: “The act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”) Ilunga (Tshiluba) – A person who is ready to forgive any abuse for the first time, to tolerate it a second time, but never a third time. (Em PT, Luba é uma das línguas bantas.) Hanyauku – KWN – The act of walking on tiptoes across warm sand. (E...

Let's check a few more – illustrated by Emma Block , who did an art retreat in Monsaraz. 🇵🇹  Flechazo – ES – An arrow shot love at first sight. Iktsuarpok – Inuit – The sense of anticipation as you wait for someone to visit. Merak – SR – A sense of oneness with the universe derived from the simplest of pleasures. Firgun – HE – The simple, unselfish joy that something good has happened to someone else. (The opposite of Schadenfreude!) Oodal – TA – The fake anger lovers display after a tiff. Dor – RO – The sense of longing when separated from that which you love. (tantamount to PT Saudade; «Dor» means Ache or Pain in PT) Aay’han – Mandalorian – A bittersweet moment of mourning & joy. Manabamáte – Rapa Nui – The lack of appetite you suffer when falling in love.  

Because of our Saudade, let's check a few more – illustrated by  Marija Tiurina . Duende – ES – The mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person. Cafuné – PTbr – The act of tenderly running fingers through someone's hair.   Gufra – AR – The amount of water that can be held in a hand.   Palegg – NO – Anything and everything that you can put on a slice of bread. (Temos isto em PT: conduto; presigo.)   Tingo – Pascuense / Rapa Nui – The act of taking objects one desires from the house of a friend by gradually borrowing all of them.  

 

 

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