30 July 2009

fire is suli (revisited)

suli = fire (noun) (Some things Google found for "suli": SULI is an acronym for Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships; a uncommon first name that can be feminine or masculine; a last name; Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli was a 10th century Arab poet and legendary shatranj (an ancestor of chess) player; Jiangyin Suli Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. of China; means "crook, grifter, cheater, shark" in Estonian; a conjugation of the Finnish verb sulaa which means to melt or to thaw; a slang term for "school" in Hungarian; name of cities in the Philippines, Albania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Indonesia, Serbia & Montenegro and Iraq; name of a town in Russia)

Word derivation for "fire" :
Basque = su, Finnish = tuli
Miresua = suli

My previous Miresua word for "fire" was "sul". I decided to modify this word slightly because both the Basque and Finnish words ended in a vowel.

26 July 2009

horse is halden (revisited)

halden = horse (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "halden": a very common term; a last name; a masculine first name; halden hound (haldenstøvare) is a breed of dog; means "mound, slagheap, slope" in German; name of a cities in Germany, Austria, and notably, Norway)

Word derivation for "horse" :
Basque = zaldi, Finnish = hevonen
Miresua = halden

My previous Miresua word for horse was veldan. Before that my word for horse was heldan. Neither of those words was somehow quite right.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for horse is now zaven.

22 July 2009

fox is kazet (revisited)

kazet = fox (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "kazet": an uncommon term; title of an album by the South African mbaqanga group the Mahotella Queens; user names; an unusual last name; Kazet Sp. is a Polish window company; a theater company inaugurated by some Jewish Nazi concentration camps theater survivors after WWII; means "catridge, cassette, magazine" in Slovio and maybe in Czech as well; means "accent" in Volapük; name of cities in Burma)

Word derivation for "fox" :
Basque = azeri, Finnish = kettu
Miresua = kazet

My previous Miresua word for "fox" was "tuare". I decided to redo this word because neither the Basque word or the Finnish word has a vowel combination. This new word should end in a vowel, but it doesn't. I decided to allow this word anyway because I think it's a alphabetic better mix.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "fox" is now "kezi".

20 July 2009

cow is hebä (revisited)

hebä = cow (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "heba" and "hebä": a common term; Heba is a feminine first name which may be Arabic; Heba appears as user names; Heba is a last name; Heba Fastighets AB is a Swedeish residential property management company; Abdi-Heba was king of Jerusalem about 1400 B.C.; hebä may mean something in Switzerland; Heba is the name of cities in China, Iraq, and Albania)

Word derivation for "cow" :
Basque = behi, Finnish = lehmä
Miresua = hebä

My previous Miresua conlang word for cow was häbe. This is a minor change. I swapped the vowels around because both the Basque and Finnish words have E as the second letter.

My word definition of hebä should not be seen as a comment about people and things called Heba. I have nothing against anyone or anything named Heba. This is merely a word in my made-up, conlang language.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for cow is now lehi.

18 July 2009

snake is käge (revisited)

kägekäge = snake (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "käge" and "kage": a common term; Kage and Käge are last names and user names; The Legend of Kage is a video game; Kage Baker is a SF writer; "kage" means "cake" in Danish; "kage" means "shadow" in Japanese when written in romaji; Kage is the name of a city in Nigeria and towns in Papua New Guinea and Sweden; Kage Obo is a city in Pakistan)

Word derivation for "snake":
Basque = suge, Finnish = käärme
Miresua = käge

My previous Miresua word for "snake" was "mägure". I decided to simplify this word.

14 July 2009

right is eikan

eikaneikan = right (noun) (some things Google found for "eikan": an uncommon term; Eikan-do temple in Kyoto, Japan; a Japanese era name (983-985); user names; a last name; means "laurels, garland" in Japanese (transliterated))

Word derivation for "right" (side) :
Basque = eskuin, Finnish = oikea
Miresua = eikan

10 July 2009

star is itzä (revisited)

itzä = star (noun) (some things Google found for "itzä" (really "itza"): a common term; Chichen Itza (or Chichén Itzá) is a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Mexico; The Itza Maya are a Guatemalan ethnic group; Itza is a last name that can be Mexican; Lake Peten Itza in Northern Guatemala)

Word derivation for "star" :
Basque = izar, Finnish = tähti
Miresua = itzä

My previous Miresua word for star was aihä. I'm changing this word because neither the Basque word or the Finnish word contained a vowel combination.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for star is now tizä.

06 July 2009

river is okai (revisited)

okai = river (noun) (some things Google found for "okai": a common term; a last name that can be from Ghana or Japan; name of a hip hop musician; a misspelling of "okay"; name of a town in Congo)

Word derivation for "river" :
Basque = ibai, Finnish = joki
Miresua = okai

My previous Miresua word for "river" was "obki". I didn't like the "bk" consonant combination.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "river" is now "jobai".

02 July 2009

grass is rohar

roharrohar = grass (noun) (some things Google found for "rohar": an uncommon term; a last name; Rohar's Roughnecks is a Guild Wars guild; user names; Rohar Trucking of Illinois; RoHar is an antigen; Phumi Rohar is a town in Cambodia)

Word derivation for "grass" :
Basque = belar, Finnish = ruoho
Miresua = rohar