Meaning: bitter

Represented in 143 languages with 28 cognate sets.
IE-CoR Definition

Illustrative Context

The leaves tasted bitter.

Target Sense
  • Most generic term, typically adjectival, for a (not pleasant) bitter taste.
  • Avoid terms meaning sour, or other unpleasant tastes.
  • Avoid terms specifically for other, especially figurative, sub-senses of the English lexeme bitter (e.g. a bitter defeat, lesson, weather, etc.), and which do not refer to taste.

Cognate sets for meaning: bitter

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang