In one of my peripatetic walks with Maria Damon, we arrived at point where we analyzed the connections that a language as a way of thinking creates between common things/words & the verbs. Our pick up was “the bread”. In English, “the bread” is associated with the verb “to rise” . Bread rises, sun rises, idea rises. In Romanian, it is a very specific verb associated with (paine/bread) the verb is “a dospi” . You can use it as a metaphor for “an idea” which ” rises”, but the verb is strictly associated with bread.

For “sun rises” in Romanian, we use “soarele rasare”, the verb “a rasari” is used for sun/moon, ideas, plant/flower especial for spring season.