Found in Translation

Every language has words that embody complex concepts that cannot be summed up by a single word in another language. One of my linguistics books lists some examples of this from the Sye language of Micronesia:

• livinlivin - the top of something that is teetering over an edge and about to fall
  
  
• orvalei - to complain, unjustly, that something is insufficient or not enough
  

There are great words and I wish we had them in English.