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Sitting Outside on a Sunny Day and Enjoying a Beer Words that capture an entire culinary experience or mood — such as “utepils,” in Norwegian — are common in other languages. English has a few such words, too. [...] Sundays at our Bangalore home were for biriyani with family and friends. One Sunday, I received the verdict on my first attempt at my mother’s famed recipe. Everyone loved it but said that it lacked her “kai guna.” The phrase is from Kannada, the language of the South Indian state of Karnataka. It refers to the quality of the hand of a creator, or, in this case, the cook. There are variations of this word across South Indian languages that refer to the intangible __________ (unique) that people bring to something they have created. While my family’s sentiments were __________ (understand), this led me to think about whether the English language contained its own __________ (express) words that encapsulated entire concepts about food. Was there a word like the Japanese “kuchinaoshi,” which translates to “mouth fix,” a way to describe eating something __________ (taste) to “fix” the bad taste in your mouth from something else? [...] Cornelia Gerhardt, an English linguist at Saarland University in Germany and one of the founders of culinary linguistics, a field concerned with the ties between language and food, believes that English is a language that does not like to pack too much information into one word. “English is __________ (analyze), using a series of words to explain an idea,” Dr. Gerhardt said, “unlike polysynthetic languages (where entire concepts are reduced to a single word) or __________ (agglutinate) languages (where suffixes and prefixes are added to a root word to create new words).”
Which suffixes can be added to the words in parentheses to form a word that fits each gap.