[’eldɧɛːl]

All people speaking more than one language run into those situations:
when you want to describe something and the word you want is stuck on
the other side of the language barrier with no passport.

My dictionary tells me “enthusiast” is the English equivalent of eldsjäl, but that’s not true. We have borrowed “entusiast” into Swedish and they’re not synonymous.

An enthusiast is someone who is deeply interested in something.

An eldsjäl is someone who burns for something, someone who devotes heart and soul, personal time and resources, to this one thing out of pure passion for what they do; there’s love in that word, there’s care and loyalty and pride in that word, and a bond with one’s passion that is much higher, stronger, and deeper than what enthusiast conveys.

Eldsjäl means “fire soul”. Please make this part of the English language.

(via sdimwit)

The word you’re looking for is “fangirl.”  

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