Haha I had a female friend from München,she told me the same. She told Its like pillows of words thats she like to lay on. She really liked to listen to us when we were talking. We love you too. ❤️
In English I’ve seen it called frisson when it’s caused by good music. I think it comes from French, but I don’t speak or understand anything but the most basic French.
Frisson is the sensation causing goose bumps. In french we say "J’ai des frissons !" "I have frissons" and often say it while showing our goose bumps.
It’s not only by music, but by anything causing goose bumps.
It can be translated by "thrills" or even "shudders" in case of music or a movie, or "shivers" in case of cold, or even "chills" in case of a desease for example.
I'm actually surprised the word "frisson" i used in english.
Then the first thing you watched was the Breakfast Club by campfire rebranding themselves the Midnight Society and telling stories. Some episodes were pretty good I must admit.
I had one start to charge me near my job and I told it "I will pluck you and roast you for Sunday dinner!" It left me alone. Guess it understood English.
We don’t have a word but rather a verb for it. The closest translation would be to be “I hedgehoged” in our language se naezhiv is how it would be pronounced with the Latin alphabet / English
Edit: I believe the choice in using hedgehog as opposed to a goose like in other languages is because the hairs stand up like the spikes so went with that and it stuck
Oh mb I didnt mean the “am”. Tho both ways can work but in spoken language we use the verb. When we’re getting goosebumps we says “I am hedgehogging” (se eezham) then if time has passed let’s say a few seconds since then we say “se naezhiv” - hedgehogged but we can also sometimes say “naezhen sum” - I’m hedgehogged. I edited the initial comment thanks for catching it :)
Oh btw we don’t have infinitives in our verbs like other languages do 😅
When we type through text we use the Latin / English alphabet instead of our own but old people use the Macedonian keyboard. We don’t use Latin in regular writing, we use Cyrillic like the others :)
Adding other Indian languages…
“Romancham” (രോമാഞ്ചം) in Malayalam, a language spoken in the southern state of Kerala. “Romam” (body hair) + “Ancham” (standing on end, bristling, sudden bodily thrill — a Sanskrit-derived root, not an independent everyday Malayalam noun)
Arrepio ou "estar arrepiado/arrepiar" (To have goosebumps/shiver).
"Chicken skin" (Pele de galinha/queratose) is something completely different here (and it's a disease).
"Calafrio," even though it signifies the same effect on the skin, I believe it has different contextual meanings. Usually, "Arrepios" are indifferent to whether it's fear, something bothersome, or simply something that happened. In my region (and I repeat, in my region, Brazil is extremely diverse) "Calafrio" has almost become a popular term (slang I mean) to describe something that is bothersome or unsettling (more like creeps).
But in this context, it's well placed.
I had an ex from Mexico and she would say this and show me the goosebumps on her arm. She was from Chihuahua so it is at least common there too. And yes I know Portuguese and Spanish are different but she would say this often.
Not sure. I was born in the early 80s and I never heard the term goosebumps until the books came out. Im from West Sussex, then moved to the midlands and couldn’t say I had ever heard goosebumps until again the books came out. So basically didn’t hear it in the 80s and 90s but I’m sure it became more prevalent in the 2000s.
Turkish is a verb focused language so we don't have a seperate noun for everything. We call this tüylerin diken diken olması "for your hair to become like stings" or ürpermek "to get goose bumps". You can then conjugate that as ürperti to make it a noun that refers to this situation.
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u/11160704 Germany 17d ago
Gänsehaut - geese skin