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by: HenHanna - Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:26 UTC

We need a word (Noun, and Adj) to describe
[ present in one language, but missing in another (or others)]

which is a kind of clusivity. (exclusivity ?) (opposite of omnipresent)

if the word is rare.... it could be

Uniquopresent or Uniquostantial

Oligapresent or Oligastantial

Brachy- is "Narrow" ?

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>>> Yet there are plenty rather more obvious concepts that
English has no word for.

Georgian has the wonderful, simple zeg, meaning the day after tomorrow.
(Jp asatte)

Spanish has antier for the opposite – the day before yesterday. (Jp ototoi)

In Norwegian, you can refer to pålegg, whereas in English you’d be stuck
with “things you put in a sandwich” – which sounds like something you
might say in a supermarket when you’re so tired you’ve forgotten the
word for cheese.

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