[PapuanLanguages] words/expressions for "6 basic emotions" in Papuan languages

[William Foley]

Watam has monomorphemic lexemes as verbs ‘feel X emotion’ for all of these except disgust.  I know no way to express this excerpt something along the lines of ‘mi no laik tru’ yak kairir kairir
Bill

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Hi Joseph,

based on my experience with Papuan dictionaries I would say that „anger“ and „fear“ are the two emotions of this set that are most often lexicalized, though for „fear“ there is often more than one expression (with nuances of meaning). There is rather seldom a word (noun or verb) for „joy“ and „sorrow“, rather these concepts are expressed phrasally (e.g. good liver and bad liver). Surprise and amazement are probably more often lexicalized in a word than disgust (for which there may be metaphors like slug or snail). An emotion that is very often lexicalized missing from this list is shame.

Best,

Edgar

Von meinem iPad gesendet

> Am 21.06.2022 um 19:05 schrieb Joseph Brooks <brooks.josephd at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi everyone,
> My uncle is doing a project on apparent universals in 6 human emotions and
> their expression. Not putting stock in that idea personally, but I told him
> I would ask to see about lexical items or (clear) expressions for the 6
> emotions in other Papuan languages. Which of these 6 does the language(s)
> you have worked on have clear means to express? They are: joy, sorrow,
> anger, fear, surprise, disgust.
>
> In Chini I find there are clear or at least reasonably marginal ways to say
> the first 5, joy being perhaps a hard one (at best the equivalent of
> "hamamas nogut tru" in pidgin). I know of no lexical form or expression for
> 'disgust' beyond the equivalent for "Mi les".
>
> Cheers
> Joseph
>
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