Lypophrenia: a sense or feeling of sorrow or sadness, without any apparent cause or source.

Gemuetlichkeit: the sense of coziness and happiness you get from being with friends in familiar places.

Umstandskraemer: someone who is always looking for problems where there are none.

Menfolk: tapping someone on the opposite shoulder of the side you’re standing on so that they turn the wrong way.

Vybafnout: to jump out at someone and say ‘boo!’

Gumusservi: moonlight shining on water.

Iktsuarpok: the feeling of anticipation you get when you’re waiting for someone to show up at your house and you keep going outside to see if they’re there yet.

Luftmensch: “air person” - an impractical dreamer with no business sense.

Yuputka: the phantom sensation of something crawling on your skin.

Zhaghzhagh: the chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage.

Saudade: the feeling of longing for something or someone that you love and which is lost.

Ya’aburnee: “you bury me” - a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.

Hyggelig: something warm and familiar that must be experienced to be known.

L’appel du vide: “the call of the void” - the instinctive urge to jump from high places.

Dépaysement: the feeling that comes from not being in one’s home country.