TASTE TERMS: SWEET

[Nadejda Moiseeva]

Dear colleagues,
I am doing a cross-linguistic survey of taste terms, and I would appreciate
your assistance with the following questionnaire, focusing on the taste term
‘sweet’.
Thanking you in advance,
N.Moiseeva

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A. Please translate these words and phrases. Provide alternative
translations if there are any, and gloss the translations where this helps
to understand them.

1. sugar is sweet
 
2. salt
 
3. sweet pie
 
4. sweet apple
 
5. sweet tea
 
6. fresh water (as opposed to salt or sea water)
 
7. full-fat milk (as opposed to low-fat or skimmed)
 
8. fresh milk (as opposed to sour)
 
9. non-salted butter
 
10. tasty soup
 
11. cooked ham
 
12. sweet potatoes
 
13. sweets
 
14. sweet cane
 
15. mild cheese
 
16. orange (the fruit)
 
17. ice-cream
 
18. good taste
 
19. cold food
 
20. sweet words
 
21. sweet baby
 
22. sweet heart
 
23. sweet life (dolce vita)
 
24. sweet-smelling
 
25. sharp knife
 
26. sound sleep
 
27. mild climate
 
28. brown (gold-brown, red-brown)
 
29. mellow colour
 
30. own sister
 
31. ring-finger
 
32. shin

B.  Could you mention any other uses of 'sweet' you can think of in this
language,  i.e. any other things that 'sweet' applies to?



Dr. Nadejda MOISEEVA
Universität Konstanz
Philosophische Fakultät
Fachgruppe Sprachwissenschaft
Postfach 5560
D-78434 KONSTANZ
Germany

Phone: +49 - 7531 - 882365
e-mail: Nadejda.Moiseeva at uni-konstanz.de