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I just realized it’s the same in German - lukewarm is _lauwarm_, and there is no antonym for it.
by pflenker 3y ago
I just realized it’s the same in German - lukewarm is _lauwarm_, and there is no antonym for it.
- semi-extrinsic 3y agoBut in German you can just say "lau", right? Same as in Scandinavian languages where you have "ljum"/"lunken", or the French "tiede" - like "tepid" in English. Those are all examples where there naturally is no antonym, it's just "between".
- pflenker 3y agoYou can say „lau“ but it either refers to lukewarm water or to mild/agreeably warm weather outside.
- em-bee 3y agolaukalt sounds better than lukecool, so let's invent it as an alternative to kühl. laukalt also rhymes with saukalt. then you can have a sequence: saukalt -> laukalt -> lauwarm -> sauwarm -> sauheiss.