Emotions
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13 words for the weather inside us.
| LEKA | Meaning | Story |
|---|---|---|
| alegri | joy / happiness | Spanish alegrΓa, Italian allegria β the bright, dancing joy of Romance languages. Even the word itself rises. |
| s'hanti | peace / calm | Sanskrit ΕΔnti β universally understood across yoga and meditation traditions. The word that ends prayers. The apostrophe marks the breath between s and h, since LEKA doesn't have the /sh/ sound. Pronounced "suh-HAN-ti." |
| tristi | sadness | Italian and French triste. A short, falling word for a feeling that pulls downward. |
| furi | anger | Italian and French furie / Latin furor. Fire-anger, not slow grudge. |
| mira-mu | wonder / awe | LEKA-internal: mira (to see) + -mu (our/shared). Awe is what we behold together. A sunset alone is beautiful; a sunset shared is mira-mu. |
| kami | spirit / soul | Japanese kami β the animistic word for spirit-in-things. Trees have kami. Rivers have kami. The word brings a worldview with it. |
| anada | bliss / deep joy | Sanskrit ananda softened (LEKA prefers no nd clusters). Bliss as the philosophical word for the deepest joy β beyond happiness. |
| soli | loneliness | Italian solo, French seul. The word for being alone-but-feeling-it. |
| kanya | longing / yearning | Sanskrit kΔmanΔ (desire, longing). Trimmed to a soft, leaning sound. The feeling of reaching across distance. |
| nari-mu | shared trust | LEKA-internal: nari (trust) + -mu. Not just trust as a quality, but trust between people β the -mu makes it relational. |
| temi-mu | love (of community) | LEKA-internal: temi (beloved) + -mu (our). The love that exists between people who belong to each other. Different from romantic love β this is the wider, deeper kind. |
| hana-i | tenderness / softness | LEKA-internal: hana (flower/face) + -i (little/dear). Literally "little flower" β the feeling of treating something delicately, like a flower in your hand. |
| paya | fear | From Sanskrit bhaya, softened (LEKA dropped the b sound in v0.4). Short, sharp, useful β fear should be a word you can call out quickly. |
How This Category Shapes the Language
- The -mu suffix does its most beautiful work here. Emotions that exist between people get marked β nari-mu (shared trust), temi-mu (community love), mira-mu (shared wonder). This is the philosophy made grammatical: LEKA notices when feelings live in the space between us.
- kami is a borrowed worldview, not just a word. Using it means agreeing, in a small way, that spirit is everywhere.
- s'hanti introduced the apostrophe-breath rule. Before this word, /sh/ was an open question. Now the apostrophe carries that work everywhere it's needed.
- No word for "envy" or "guilt" β by design. We don't yet need them.
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