Honey, you are in my liver ?!!

[givarya]

The ancients considered liver (IECUR, IECINORIS) the seat of all feelings. Here is something to look into; Are there any references to liver in slang, proverbs, and such that involves love, lover, beauty, or emotions? My guess is there are some at least in Latin. what about other languages?

[MyIlium]

My vocab isn't especially strong, but...no, I can't think of any, even in Latin. I know that the ancient Chinese and Egyptians were believers in the heart as the core of your being, and therefore feelings, I guess.

[Kasper]

My vocab isn't especially strong, but...no, I can't think of any, even in Latin. I know that the ancient Chinese and Egyptians were believers in the heart as the core of your being, and therefore feelings, I guess.

Same thing in england - learning things by heart.

[Bert]

[face=SPIonic]spla/gxna [/face] is used in the NT the way we would use heart.
It might not be specifically liver but the inward parts, guts maybe, sure includes the liver.
In English we do have 'gut feelings'.

[masuro]

In Korean, a person with a 'big liver' is brave. Does that count? And English speakers say, 'lily-livered' for someone who is cowardly, no? There must a common root for those expressions somewhere . . . . .

[annis]

In English, angry people can vent their spleen.

[ThomasGR]

The anscient Greeks thought much of the gall (bile, choler); χολη in Greek. From Greek we have inherited "melancholy" in English and other European languages, which means black gall.

[Democritus]

I can't stomach this conversation. It gives me cold feet.

[Turpissimus]

The anscient Greeks thought much of the gall (bile, choler); χολη in Greek. From Greek we have inherited "melancholy" in English and other European languages, which means black gall.

Then there's sanguine (cheerfully confident and optimistic) and phlegmatic (calm, unemotional).

I'm afraid I don't know of any Latin idioms involving body parts.

[classicalclarinet]

sanguine (cheerfully confident and optimistic)

That's very confusing for me.. I always think of 'bloody' which is wholly different.

[Aurelia]

Then there's sanguine (cheerfully confident and optimistic) and phlegmatic (calm, unemotional).

I'm afraid I don't know of any Latin idioms involving body parts

don't forget Choleric!

[givarya]

in Chinese there is Îҵĸγ¦´ç¶Ï (wo de gan chang cun duan) which is "my liver and intestines are broken into pieces" meaning I am extremly sad.

[klewlis]

i believe there are some in hebrew, which english bibles tend to translate as "heart" anyway. but someone who knows more hebrew than i do can speak to that. :)

[Koala]

the Hebrew scriptures have. . .

“My eyes do fail with tears,
my bowels are troubled,
my liver is poured upon the earth,
for the destruction of the daughter of my people” Lam 2:11

where ‘bowels’ and ‘liver’ are ‘mē’âh’ and ‘kâbêd’ respectively

Cheers

[primitive]

in Chinese there is Îҵĸγ¦´ç¶Ï (wo de gan chang cun duan) which is "my liver and intestines are broken into pieces" meaning I am extremly sad.

im trying to learn cantonese. i do know some things. here is what i learned how to say.

Ngoh mh haih yahn.
I am not a person.

???? haha

[MyIlium]

I must retract my earlier statement. In Chinese if a person has a bad attitude or something, he is said to have a bad liver. Hmm.

[Kladaradatsj]

Dutch uses 'uit het hoofd leren': to learn out of one's head = by heart. It holds the heart to be the seat of emotions. You also can 'have something on your liver', which means something's bothering you. And as in English it has 'treading some one's toes', which has in turn led to the marvelous 'having long toes' for getting upset easily.

I vagely recall my Professor of Greek saying that some Russian writers (Platonov c.s. ?) held the bowels as the seat of emotions. Or was it the liver? I'll try and ask him some day after the exams.

[Jefferson Cicero]

Didn't the ancient Egyptians think the kidneys were the seat of emotion?

[Olga R.]

[face=SPIonic]spla/gxna [/face] is used in the NT the way we would use heart.
It might not be specifically liver but the inward parts, guts maybe, sure includes the liver.
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The same in Modern Greek.

[yadfothgildloc]

i believe there are some in hebrew, which english bibles tend to translate as "heart" anyway. but someone who knows more hebrew than i do can speak to that.

Kidneys are the seat of courage for the ancient Israelites.