Books I got in May 2023 🇮🇸 🇿🇦 🇳🇱 🇩🇪
Words with a cute literal meaning
- 🇮🇸 ástfanginn - love-captured: in love 💘
- 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇩🇪 øyeblikket/ögonblick/Augenblick 👁 - eyeblink: moment
- 🇩🇪🇩🇰 Kindergarten, børnehavet - children garden
- 🇸🇪 påsklilja - Easter lily: daffodil
- 🇸🇪 färgglad - color-happy: colorful
- 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 kjæreste/kæreste - dearest - partner (gender neutral)
- 🇳🇴 kjærlighet på pinne - love on a stick: lollipop 🍭
- 🇳🇴 å være glad i noen/noe - to be happy in sb/smthing: to love
- 🇮🇹 🇳🇱 🇩🇰 pulcinella di mare, papegaaiduiker, søpapegøj* 🦜🌊 - sea pulcinella (black&white carnival character), diver parrot, sea parrot*: puffin
- 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 stelle filanti, Luftschlangen 🌟 🐍 - stringy stars, air snakes - streamers 🎊
- 🇮🇹 solare ☀️- solar: adjective for a happy, positive person
- 🇮🇹 occhi della madonna** - Virgin Mary eyes: forget-me-nots
- 🇮🇹 Viola del pensiero - viola of the thought: pansy
- 🇮🇹 🇪🇸, Catalan - Principe azzurro/ príncipe azul/Príncep blau 🫅🔷: (light) blue Prince: Prince charming
- 🇮🇹 avere il sangue blu 🩸🔹- to have blue blood: to be of noble birth
- 🇬🇧 Sunny side up 🍳☀️ - 🇮🇹 occhio di bue - bull’s eye 👁🐮
- 🇩🇪 Edelweiß - Noble white
- 🇩🇪 Götterspeise - dish/fare of the gods: a gelatine pudding
- 🇩🇪 Abendland - Evening land: the West
- 🇩🇪 Liebesknochen 🦴💕 - love bone: éclair
- 🇩🇪 Gänsefüßchen 🦆 - tiny goose feet: quotation marks ‘‘’’
- 🇩🇪 🇫🇮 Das All, maailmankaikkeus- ”the all” “the world’s all”: the Universe (kiitos @pclysemia)
- 🇮🇹 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 chiocciola, kanelbulle, apenstaartje 🐌 🐒- snail, cinnamon bun, monkey tail: @ (at)
- 🇯🇵 花火【はなび】 🔥 🌺- fire flower: firework 🎆
- 🇫🇷arc-en-ciel - arch-in-the-sky: rainbow 🌈
- 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 cometa/cerf-volant/воздушный змей (Russian)/ بادبادک (farsi) 💫 🦌 🐍 - shooting star, flying deer, air snake, wind-little-wind: kite 🪁
- 🇵🇱 malinka - little raspberry: hickey💋
- 🇫🇮 🇳🇱 🇿🇦 hattara, suikerspin, spook asem - little cloud, sugar spider, ghost breath ☁️ 🕷️ 👻 : Cotton candy
- 물고기 - water meat: fish
- not really cute: Faroese 🇫🇴 hvalspýggja - whale puke: jellyfish 🐳
will keep this updated when i find/remember new ones! Also next up: aesthetic idioms
*also called Lunde**not sure if it is a regional thing to call them like that