Does every single thing in the world have a noun.
2006-07-25 00:02:38 · 11 answers · asked by kenfitameen 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
no. Sometimes words create things. Like in Spanish I heard theres a word to describe a feeling that you can get when you're at a wedding. And in swedish there's Lagom, which means not too much not too little, but covers a much broader scope than medium, or alright. Eskimo's have many many many words for different kinds of snows alledgedly. And what about the feeling you get when you take a really hard poop. Is there a word for it? Or that pressure you feel when you ate bad shrimp... no word. Or beauty beyond words... no word for that...
2006-07-25 00:09:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sure--but maybe not in the same language! That's why we Americans have sushi as a word. When the food appeared, the word came with it, and now the word sushi is as Americain as, as...pizza! : D
Other times some languages need several words to describe something while other languages use one word, but if it exists, people either have a word for it, or they invent one. (Think of all the different things that parents call a baby's pacifier...we called it the 'plug'!)
2006-07-25 00:10:34 · answer #2 · answered by frauholzer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, in English, there are no words to describe:
* snow that's 3 days old and is starting to turn gray from dirt
* the feeling you get after leaving your house that you might have left the lights on
* food that you have to pretend you like because a loved one made it
Those are all nouns and there is no one word that defines them.
2006-07-25 03:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by JP 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not, seeing as a lot of things haven't been discovered by mankind yet.
But feel free to make up words; scientists do it all the time :D
2006-07-25 00:06:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not everything.
Some things in the world haven't been discovered yet.
They keep coming up with new animal species all the time when they go into the jungles.
2006-07-25 00:06:00 · answer #5 · answered by double_nubbins 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No word for a parent who has lost a child.
2015-11-21 08:59:33 · answer #6 · answered by Robert 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Life is everything
2006-07-25 00:06:36 · answer #7 · answered by embe dodo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes for those who speak.&no for all other living beings they r just the things.
2006-07-25 00:07:47 · answer #8 · answered by victorytovije 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way. If we have yet to discover something, we have yet to name it... other than "That which is yet to be discovered!"
2006-07-25 00:06:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no not all things
2006-07-25 01:43:03 · answer #10 · answered by boselydia 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋