Words that don't exist in the English language

I grew up bilingual speaking English to my father and Korean to my mother.  This made me aware at an early age the subtle differences of linguistic expression.

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For instance, in Korean there is a specific word gulpi which means the day after the day after tomorrow so basically three days from now.  It was one of the few words that would trump the English equivalent in conversation with my father.

Now don't get me wrong, I love the English language and I always defend it to foreigners learning it that it doesn't have the correct translation for a specific notion.  ( For instance, the term schadenfreude is still commonly referred to in the original German as is l'esprit de l'escalier in French.)

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 I remind them that language is a social, fluid, and animate object.  The English language has a dictionary that grows bigger by the year unlike French that resolutely attempts to remain as static as possible. While it is easy to communicate at a base level in English, 

you can always tell a foreigner.  

It's just that we are more forgiving about accents unlike

 certain European countries as 

the English language intrinsically has so many variations.

But there are certain words that I do wish English had that 

already exist in other languages.

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Some of us may be aware of the Danish word hygge 

( loose translation is cosy comfort ) which due to the popularity of Danish drama is fast becoming almost an English word.
Although I am convinced the word hug is derived from this one.

These are words if existed in English might be used by most of us.

Remember the movie Lost in Translation?
Well there is a tribal Tierra del Fuego word that translates exactly what happened in that movie...

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It was mamihlapinatapei which is the wordless, yet meaningful look shared by two people who both desire to initiate something but are both reluctant to start.
All that in one word - love it.

 Have you ever bought a book but never read it? 
The Japanese have a word for it.
Yep, tsundoku for War and Peace.

I know a few single male friends who would use this Japanese word a lot in a nightclub.

Girls who look good from behind but not in front are bakkushan.

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The Japanese have specific aesthetic notions.
Your hairdresser needs to know that it is their fault if you are 
age-otori which is looking worse after a hair cut.

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Remember those butterflies and euphoria during the early stages of a love affair?  That's called forelsket in the Nordic languages.

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The sensual people of Brazil have a special verb, cafune, 
which is running fingers tenderly through your lover's hair.

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Gigil is Tagalog for that feeling when you want to squeeze or pinch something or someone who is soooo adorable.

It's natural that the German language would come up with this as I love this feeling - waldeinsamkeit - being alone in the woods.

 Who would now dare say German isn't a beautiful language.

Tabitha from Bourbon and Pearls surely must have posted something on this that I missed while going through her archives.

We've all tartled haven't we? 

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I am surprised this isn't a mainstream word.

This is the act of hesitating introducing someone because 
you've forgotten their name.

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Gaelic is so nuanced they even have a name for that special itch on the upper lip before you sip whisky, sgriob.

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There is a coined phrase that a lot of people use of late when they say, "I'm eating my feelings." Germans refer to this as
 Kummerspeck or literally grief bacon.

I have been guilty of the following.
Have you ever kept eating even though you are full 
but the food is just too delicious? 

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Well, the Georgians call it shemomedjamo which translates as 
I accidentally ate the whole thing.

Italians are so design minded that they even have a word for
 that mark left on a table by a cold glass.

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Coaster anyone?
I don't want any culaccinos.

But I think we need to find a new word for the following.

There needs to be a new English word 
for l'heure bleue because those damn vampires 
have hijacked the word twilight!