Yet we have only one word for some certain things, like snow. Our heavily-used word “love” should but often doesn’t end up encompassing the highest form thereof, that being “charity”.
The Ancient Romans had many words for “kill” : “necare”, “interficere”, etc. Each culture has an extensive vocabulary to meet their “peculiar” needs. I guess Innuits and Swedes would have many different words for snow. Arabic probably has one. I Wonder how many words there are for buffalo in Lakota? I know only one: Tatanka. PolynesIan must have many words for “wave” ( as in ocean wave). Anyone who struggled through German knows their abysmal propensity for stringing a long series of words together to describe one object or idea where English adopts relatively shorter Anglicized Greco-Latin terms. On the whole, I stand by my
prior statement on English.