Note 308 — III The Sixteenth Century [1502-80]
Reading edition
The word cannot be translated exactly, but corresponds to the Greek πόθος, Latin desiderium, Catalan anyoranza, Galician morriña, German Sehnsucht, Russian тоска (pron. taská). It is the ‘passion for which I can find no name’ (Gissing, The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft).