Vedun wrote:Adrianslont wrote:Rhian wrote:Vedun wrote:Basic words for different smells, like there are blue, green and red for colours and sweet, savory and spicy for tastes. Infact this is an overwhelmingly common lexical gap and such words occur only in one or a couple of languages in Papua New Guinea.
Verbs for motion derived from the respective preposition, e.g. go through, go over, go out, go in between. Georgian has such verbs.
There should be a word for people who are unusually sensitive to bad smells. I spent the last few hours in a group where one person had slightly bad breath. Whereas most people would carry on and not care much, to me it was nauseating. I'm not a fusspot, I just seem a little more sensitive to smells.
Rhian, there is a word for people who are sensitive to odours: osmophobic.
Verdun, English has a number of words for motion plus preposition combos, too eg go into = enter or penetrate, go out = exit, go up = climb or scale or ascend and more.
Cheers.
They are not derived from the respective prepositions though, such verbs would be *throughen, *overen, *betweenen.
Ah, I see - my poor reading of your previous post. But I guess English doesn’t need to derive the verbs from the prepositions - it already has verbs which describe going into, up, down etc. So there is no lexical gap as such - just a different way of filling the gap?