Na Terra do Pai Natal

Acabei de descobrir que em Finlandes existe uma palavra cuja traducão é muito perto de "Saudade": Kaiho. Não significam exactamente a mesma coisa mas é bem mais perto que a traducão para inglês normalmente usada "Miss". E Kaiho tb tem ligacão à música. Tal como Saudade está intimamente ligada ao fado, Kaiho está ligada ao tango finlandes (trágico e sentimental ao contrário do tango argentino).

Kaiho
Interestingly, the Finnish language has a word whose meaning corresponds almost exactly with saudade: kaiho. Kaiho means a state of involuntary solitude in which the subject feels incompleteness and yearns for something unattainable or extremely difficult and tedious to attain. Ironically, the sentiment of kaiho is central to the Finnish tango, in stark contrast to the Argentine tango, which is predominantly sensuous.

There is a religious context for kaiho in Finland as well; a sect of "herännäiset" or "körttiläiset" more familiarly, has central to their faith a kaiho towards Sion, a unity of faith, and a connection with God, permeating their central book, Siionin Virret ("Hymns of Sion").

However, saudade does not involve tediousness. Rather, the feeling of saudade accentuates itself: the more one thinks about the loved person or object, the more one feels saudade. The feeling can even be creative, as one strives to fill in what is missing with something else or to recover it altogether.
(adapted from Wikipedia)