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Beautiful words from other languages?
What are beautiful words in your language?
What language do you find is the most beautiful?
What is the word for "beautiful" in your language and what language is that?
I'm really interested in hearing words from other languages that you find beautiful.
I'm especially interested in words that start with J that could be used as a middle name, like jaeger/jäger. My only issue with jaeger is it means "hunter" which is unappealing to me.
Thank you for any contributions to the thread!
With IPA pronunciation and meaning. I'm curious whether some might be very different across languages. Here are some Finnish words I find to sound pretty:
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Kuulas [ˈkuːlɑs]: clear/transparent
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Aalto [ˈɑːl̪t̪o̞]: wave
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Vadelma [ˈʋɑde̞lmɑ]: raspberry
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Illalla [ˈilːɑlːɑ]: In the evening
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Yö [ˈyø̞̯]: Night
Funnily enough the infamous opening line It was a dark and stormy night actually sounds very pretty in Finnish - Oli synkkä ja myrskyinen yö [ˈo̞li ˈsynkːæ jɑ ˈmyrskyi̯ne̞n ˈyø̞̯]