This is such a fascinating topic you’re touching on here. Trying to trace the origins of words that describe mental or emotional states - and discovering that they often come from concepts rooted in the exact sciences - really highlights the informational space that shapes how people think and feel.

Each culture seems to inhabit a slightly different conceptual space, and that’s why, when someone learns a foreign language, it’s not enough to learn only the technical side of it. You also have to absorb the context of the space in which that language is actually used.

In that sense, your example makes me think that language learning is inseparable from learning culture and building human connections, not just mastering vocabulary or grammar.