30 September 2012

your (plural) is teuden

teuden = your (plural) (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "teuden": an unusual to rare term; user names; a rare last name; name of a World of Warcraft character; similar Teufen is the name of a places in Switzerland and Germany)

Word derivation for "your" (plural) :
Basque = zuen, Finnish = teidan + -nne
Miresua = teuden

I need to deal with the letters I have in the Basque and the Finnish words. My possessive pronouns in Miresua are inescapably somewhat irregular.

26 September 2012

you (plural) is teu (revisited)

teu = you (plural) (pronoun - 2nd person plural) (some things Google found for "teu": a very common term; an unusual last name; a rare first name; TEU is the NYSE stock symbol for Box Ships Inc; TEU is an acronym for twenty-foot equivalent unit which a measure used for capacity in container transportation; TEU is an acronym for Tertiary Education Union of New Zealand; TEU is an acronym for Treaty on European Union; in Catalan, Galician and Portuguese teu means "your, yours" (singular))

Word derivation for "you" (plural) :
Basque = zuek, Finnish = te
Miresua = teu

My previous Miresua conlang word for you (plural) was tek. Lately seems I've been doing a step backward for each step forward.

24 September 2012

our is geiren

geiren = our (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "geiren": an uncommon to rare term; a rare last name; a very rare first name; user names; name of a World of Warcraft character; name of a place in Norway)

Word derivation for "our" :
Basque = gure, Finnish = meidän + -mme
Miresua = geiren

In Finnish, -mme is a possessive suffix appended to the main word owned, which is used used with or without the genitive meidän.

I considered making this word gemen, to use an M from Finnish, but that would have made my possessive pronouns even more irregular. M will appear in the ending for most 1st person plural verb conjugations.

22 September 2012

we is ge (revisited)

ge = we (pronoun - 1st person plural) (some things Google found for "ge": a very common term; GE stands for General Electric; a uncommon last name that can be Chinese; .ge is the Internet country code for Georgia; symbol for chemical element Germanium; means greater than or equal to in some programming languages; Gê are an indigenous people in Brazil; in Latin and Spanish name of the letter G; in Old English gé is the 2nd person plural you; ge means give in Swedish; name of places in Liberia and Ghana)

Word derivation for "we" :
Basque = gu, Finnish = me
Miresua = ge

This is another revision. My previous Miresua conlang word for we was mu.

20 September 2012

his/her is hären

hären = his/her (possisive pronoun) (some things Google found for "hären": an uncommon term; HÄREN bath towels and washcloths by IKEA; similar Haren is an uncommon last name, notably Major League Baseball pitcher Dan Haren; similar Haren is an unusual masculine first name; in Danish and Swedish similar haren means hare (lepus); similar Haren is the name of places in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Somalia)

Word derivation for "his/her" :
Basque = haren (or beraren), bere
Finnish = hänen (genitive) + -nsa or -nsä (possessive suffix)
Miresua = hären

My Miresua word is unusually close to the Basque word, haren, and also to the Finnish word, hänen.

In standard Finnish, both the possessive suffix and the genitive of the personal pronoun are apparently compulsory. In colloquial Finnish, usually only hänen (the genitive) is used. The possessive suffixes differ depending on front or back vowel harmony.

Miresua doesn't feature vowel harmony. (Although my experimental Hungarian/Finnish artlang, Samgur, does.)

In Basque, bere is reflexive, meaning his own, her own, plus its own.

18 September 2012

he/she is här (revisitied)

här = he/she (pronoun – 3rd person singular) (some things Google found for "här": a very common term; här means here in Swedish; similar Har is an uncommon last name; similar Har is a unusual first name that can be masculine; in English similar har means a sound of laughter with a sarcastic connotation; in Basque similar har means worm or nagging conscience; in Faroese similar har means there and similar hár means hair; in Icelandic similar hár means high; in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish similar har is forms of the verb to have; in Romanian similar har means grace, talent; similar Har is the name of places in Indonesia and Somalia)

Word derivation for "he/she" :
Basque = hura (or bera), Finnish = hän
Miresua = här

My previous Miresua word for he/she was hunä, which was a word I posted only about two months ago. What can I say? I'm changing things.

Both Basque and Finnish use one pronoun for he and she. Miresua follows their example.

Note that in Basque third-person personal pronouns are a bit complicated.

16 September 2012

your (singular) is zunen (revisited)

zunen = your (singular) (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "zunen": an unusual to rare term; a rare last name; a rare first name; user names; ZUNEN is a navigational waypoint in Texas; similarly named Zune music + video software; seems to be a form of sun or sunshine in Yiddish (transliterated))

Word derivation for "your (singular)" :
Basque = zure, Finnish = sinun + -si
Miresua = zunen

In Finnish, sinum is the genitive form of the personal pronoun and -si is a possessive suffix appended to the word owned.

My previous Miresua word for your (singular) was ziru. I posted that word only ten days ago. Guess I wasn't looking at the big picture. This time around there's more logic, less irregularity. And my words are still valid alphabetic mixes of the Basque and the Finnish words.

14 September 2012

you (singular) is zun (revisited)

zun = you (pronoun - 2nd person singular) (some things Google found for "zun": a very common term; ZUN is the only member of Team Shanghai Alice a Japanese game development organization; an ancient type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel sometimes in the shape of an animal; an unusual first name; an unusual last name; ZŪN Energy Drink; Reggaeton song "Zun Da Da" by Zion; Zun-Mod (or Dzuunmod) is a place in Mongolia; name of a place in Iran)

Word derivation for "you" :
Basque = zu (2nd person formal),
Finnish = sinä (2nd person informal)
Miresua = zun

My previous Miresua word for you (singular) was zä.

12 September 2012

my is miren (revisited)

miren = my (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "miren": a very common term; Miren Browser for Android Phone; a uncommon feminine first name which is the Basque form of Mary or Miriam, notably Spanish actress Miren Ibarguren; a rare feminine first name which can be Irish; "Miren, the Moaning Well" is a rare game card in Magic: The Gathering; an unusual last name; third person conjugations of the verb "to look" in Catalan, Spanish and Galician; name of a place in Slovenia on the border with Italy; name of places in Indonesia and Poland)

Word derivation for "my" :
Basque = nire, Finnish = minun + -ni
Miresua = miren

I'm redoing this word, which I just did only ten days ago, to make my possessive pronouns more regular. Proof again that I change my mind on words. My previous Miresua word for my was nime.

The genitive case ending for Miresua will be -n or -en. That I'm in addition using the r from the Basque word shows that possessive pronouns will be somewhat irregular.

10 September 2012

I is mi (revisited)

mi = I (pronoun – 1st person singular) (some things Google found for "mi": a very common term; MI is the US postal abbreviation for Michigan; in Spanish mi means my; MI is an abbreviation for Middle Initial; M.I is a Nigerian rapper and musician; an uncommon last name; an unusual feminine first name; MI is one thousand and one in Roman numerals; in music syllable used to represent the third note of a major scale; means mouse in Albanian; means I in Esperanto; means "what, we" in Hungarian; means noodle in Indonesian; means my in Interlingua; means "we, me" in Serbo-Croatian; means "I, me" in Welsh)

Word derivation for "I" :
Basque = ni, Finnish = minä
Miresua = mi

I've been rethinking things. Looking at possessive determiner pronouns, I realized that I needed to revisit subject pronouns again. That or have very irregular Miresua grammar.

My previous Miresua word for I was nin. I considered making this word min, but that unfortunately means pain in Basque.

06 September 2012

your (singular) is ziru

ziru = your (singular) (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "ziru": an uncommon term; an unusual first name that can be Chinese; a rare last name; Philein/ZiRu Productions is a non-profit dance production company based in San Francisco; Ziru is a contemporary design furniture company in Spain; in Traveler RPG the Ziru Sirka is the interstellar First Imperium; user names; name of a place in Uganda)

Word derivation for "your (singular)" :
Basque = zure, Finnish = sinun + -si
Miresua = ziru

According to Wiktionary, in standard Finnish the possessive suffix -si (appended to the word owned) is compulsory, but the genitive form of the personal pronoun "sinun" before the main word can be sometimes omitted. On the other hand, in colloquial Finnish, the suffix -si is very rare and only the genitive form "sinun" is used.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for your (singular) is now zuren.

02 September 2012

my is nime

nime = my (possessive pronoun) (some things Google found for "nime": a very common term; NIME is an acronym for New Interfaces for Musical Expression; NIME or New Shores is a Business School in India; NIME is an acronym for Networking Issues in Multimedia Entertainment; NIME is an acronym for National Conference on Mathematics Education of India; rare last name; a rare first name; in the Star Wars universe name of a port city on the planet Roon; nime chow (naem chhaw) are Cambodian fresh (not deep-fried) spring rolls; in Estonian forms of the noun name; name of places in Papua New Guinea; similar Nîmes is a city in southern France)

Word derivation for "my" :
Basque = nire, Finnish = minun + -ni
Miresua = nime

Finnish doesn't do possessive pronouns like English. The Finnish pronoun minun is generally used with the possessive suffix -ni appended to the word owned. Often the suffix -ni is used without using minun at all. Minun is the genitive singular of the personal pronoun minä.

Basque has a word for my, instead of a suffix, so I'm going to do the same in Miresua. Seems less complicated. By the way, my Miresua word for I is nin.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for my is now miren.