Although not all emotion words are common—the German word Sehnsucht refers to a strong desire for an alternative life and has no direct translation in English—there are many words that appear to name similar emotional states across the world’s spoken languages. Translation dictionaries, for example, suggest that the English word love can be equated with the Turkish word sevgi and the Hungarian word szerelem. But does this mean that the concept of “love” is the same in English, Turkish, and Hungarian?
