30 December 2013

paw is känpa

känpa = paw (noun) (some things Google found for "kanpa": an uncommon term; Kanpa International Sales is a Pakistani seafood company; a rare last name; kanpa can mean fund raising in Japanese when transliterated; name of a place in Maharashtra, India; name of a small community in Western Australia; similar Kanp'a is a place in South Korea)

Word derivation for "paw"
Basque = hanka, Finnish = käpälä
Miresua = känpa

Another word in Finnish for paw is tassu.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice said of her cat Dinah, "she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face..."

26 December 2013

tail is häztan

häztan = tail (noun) (some things Google found for "haztan": a rare term; user names; Haztan Automotive Limited and Haztan Group Limited are or were companies in New Zealand; a rare last name; similar Hazlan is an unusual masculine name that can be Malaysian; similar Hazlan is a domain in the Ravenloft gaming world)

Word derivation for "tail"
Basque = häntä, Finnish = buztan
Miresua = häztan

Another word in Finnish for tail is pyrstö.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat "vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin..."

22 December 2013

whisker is viboke

viboke = whisker (noun) (some things Google found for "viboke": a rare term; user names; gaming character names; similar Vibok Works is a Spanish studio for publishing, art and architecture; similar Vibeke is a Scandinavian feminine first name; similar Viboge is the name of a place in Denmark)

Word derivation for "whisker"
Basque = bibote (whisker, mustache)
Finnish = viiksi (whisker, half of a mustache) (mustache is viikset)
Miresua = viboke

Another Finnish word for whisker is viiksikarva, where karva means hair, fur.

The Basque word for whisker, bibote, is from the Spanish word for mustache and whisker, bigote.

Whiskers, the plural, such as of a cat, will be viboket. This word will also mean mustache. By the way, there are other words in Basque and Finnish for hair in a beard or sideburns.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Queen of Hearts shrieked out, "Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!"

18 December 2013

size is tamko

tamko = size (noun) (some things Google found for "tamko": a common term; TAMKO Building Products for roofing and decks; an unusual last name; a rare first name; Tamko is a Finnish acronym for Tampereen Ammattikorkeakoulun Opiskelijakunta (Tampere University of Applied Sciences Student Union); in Swahili tamko means statement; similar Tamkor is the name of a place in India)

Word derivation for "size"
Basque = tamaina, Finnish = koko
Miresua = tamko

The Basque word tamaina is similar to the Spanish noun tamaño which means size. Another Basque word for size is neurri (size, measure).

The Finnish word koko means size, format. As an adjective, koko means whole, entire. Another Finnish word for size is suuruus (size, greatness, magnitude).

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Caterpillar asked Alice, "What size do you want to be?"

14 December 2013

glove is eshukas

eshukas = glove (noun) (some things Google found for "eshukas": a very rare term; similar shukas is a word derived from Swahili for sashes (decorative lengths of cloth) worn in parts of Africa; similar Shukas is a rare last name; similar Eshuk is a rare last name; similar Ashuka is an Indian restaurant in Luton, England)

Word derivation for "glove"
Basque = eskularru (esku (hand) + larru (skin))
Finnish = hansikas
Miresua = eshukas

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The White Rabbit was "splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves...".

There's a syllable break between the s and the h, there's no "sh" sound in the pronunciation.

10 December 2013

elbow is kynädo

kynädo = elbow (noun) (some things Google found for "kynado": a rare term; user names; nickname for a toddler boy; similar KYNAR 500 PVDF resin is used in high-end paints for metals)

Word derivation for "elbow"
Basque = ukondo, Finnish = kyynärpää
Miresua = kynädo

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the Mad Tea-Party chapter, the March Hare and the Hatter had the sleeping Dormouse sitting between them, and they "were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it".

By the way, the plural, elbows, would be kynädot.

06 December 2013

soup is zeipo

zeipo = soup (noun) (some things Google found for "zeipo": an unusual term; user names; gaming character names; Zeipo Pty Ltd is a small Australian company; similar Zeipau (aka Szczepanow) is the name of a place in Poland)

Word derivation for "soup"
Basque = zopa, Finnish = keitto
Miresua = zeipo

In Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Mock Turtle sings the song "Turtle Soup" which begins like this:
"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!"

02 December 2013

answer is evastun

evastun = answer (noun) (some things Google found for "evastun": a rare term; name of the Spanish website and twitter account for Escuela Valle Astún (Astún Valley (Ski) School); similar Vastun is a rare last name; similar Vasstun is the name of a place in Norway)

Word derivation for "answer"
Basque = erantzun, Finnish = vastaus
Miresua = evastun

This snippet is from the Mad Tea-Party scene:
"Have you guessed the riddle yet?" the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
"No, I give it up," Alice replied: "what's the answer?"
The riddle was "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" The Hatter asked Alice a riddle that had no answer.

30 November 2013

skirt is gane

gane = skirt (noun) (some things Google found for "gane": a common term; an unusual last name; user names; Mokume-gane is a mixed-metal laminate with distinctive layered patterns first made in Japan; an unusual to rare usually masculine first name; in Latvian gane means a shepherdess; forms of the Spanish verb ganar meaning to win, gain or earn; in Scots the past participle of gae which means go; name of places in Senegal, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea and Sweden)

Word derivation for "skirt"
Basque = gona, Finnish = hame
Miresua = gane

In the final chapter of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice "jumped up in such a hurry that she tipped over the jury-box with the edge of her skirt, upsetting all the jurymen".

26 November 2013

pepper (spice) is piperi

piperi = pepper (noun) (some things Google found for "piperi": an uncommon term; Piperi Mediterranean Grill in Boston, MA; an unusual last name; Anemone piperi (Piper’s Anemone) and Campanula piperi (Olympic bellflower) are wildflowers of the US Northwest and British Columbia; in Latin datative singular of piper which means pepper (spice); name of a Greek island in the National Marine Park of Alonnisos Northern Sporades; name of places in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro)

Word derivation for "pepper (spice)"
Basque = piper, Finnish = pippuri
Miresua = piperi

This is the word for pepper, the spice, peppercorn or Piperaceae. Not the fruit of Capsicum plants, such as green or red bell peppers.

In Chapter 6 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice said to herself, "as well as she could for sneezing", "There's certainly too much pepper in that soup!"

22 November 2013

card is karti

karti = card (noun) (some things Google found for "karti": a common term; an unusual last name; Ali Ahmed Karti is a Sudanese Foreign Minister; an unusual to rare first name; Karti P Chidambaram is the son of an Indian politician; in Latvian accusative singular form of karte which means map, chart; may mean does in Urdu (transliterated); name of a place in Iran)

Word derivation for "card"
Basque = karta, Finnish = kortti or pelikortti (game + card)
Miresua = karti

In the last scene in Wonderland, Alice said to the Queen of Hearts and the court, "You're nothing but a pack of cards!"

18 November 2013

cake is tarku (revisited)

tarku = cake (noun) (some things Google found for "tarku": an uncommon term; user names; a rare last name; a rare usually masculine first name; name of a Hittite pagan God; gaming character names; means spindle in Sanskrit (transliterated); name of places in Nepal, India and Iran)

Word derivation for "cake"
Basque = tarta, Finnish = kakku
Miresua = tarku

My previous Miresua conlang word for cake was kartu. I changed this word because kartu would have been too similar to my next word.

In Chapter 1 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice finds "very small cake, on which the words 'EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants".

14 November 2013

chin is lekos

lekos = chin (noun) (some things Google found for "lekos": a uncommon term; Lekos are ellipsoidal reflector spotlights for stage lighting; an unusual last name that can be Greek; Lekos Dye & Finishing of the Greater Los Angeles area; LEKOS s.r.o. is a company in Slovakia that sells equipment for making candies or sweets; means will lick in Esperanto)

Word derivation for "chin":
Basque = kokots, Finnish = leuka
Miresua = lekos

In chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Pool of Tears, Alice "was up to her chin in salt water".

10 November 2013

strange is ouraro

ouraro = strange (adjective) (some things Google found for "ouraro": a rare term; user names; a very rare name; similar Guraro is a rare last name; similar Ourarou is the name of a place in Benin)

Word derivation for "strange":
Basque = arraro, Finnish = outo
Miresua = ouraro

At the end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice told her sister "all these strange Adventures of hers".

06 November 2013

claw is kyspar

kyspar = claw (noun) (some things Google found for "kyspar": an unusual to rare term; user names; a very rare first name; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; means lock in Grednian which is a conlang; similar Kaspar is an uncommon masculine first name and an uncommon last name)

Word derivation for "claw":
Basque = atzapar, Finnish = kynsi
Miresua = kyspar

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat had "VERY long claws and a great many teeth".

02 November 2013

dull (boring) is astyr

astyr = dull (boring) (adjective) (some things Google found for "astyr": an uncommon term; a rare last name notably Bobby Astyr the "Clown Prince of Porn"; Astyr is a musical artist from NYC; a rare feminine first name; user names; The North Face Women's Astyr Jacket; Uris Astyr was a French Metal band; similar Astyra was the name of an ancient Greek city)

Word derivation for "dull (boring)"
Basque = aspergarri (where suffix -garri means deserving or cause)
Finnish = tylsä
Miresua = astyr

My definition of astyr shouldn't be seen as a comment about anyone or anything called astyr. This is merely a word in my Miresua conlang language. I have nothing against people with this fine name. Astyr is a combination of letters from the Basque and the Finnish words.

Near the end of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice "sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality."

30 October 2013

cross is ruzti (revisited)

ruzti = cross (noun) (some things Google found for "ruzti": an unusual term; a rare last name; user names; a League of Legends gaming character; a rare first name; RuzTi Naylz is a rap musical artist; similar Rusti is an unusual first name)

Word derivation for "cross"
Basque = gurutze, Finnish = risti
Miresua = ruzti

My previous Miresua conlang word for cross was ruiste.

This is a revision. I'm posting it because I'm running short on time. The noun cross doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but the adjective cross appears and the verbs cross and cross-examine.

26 October 2013

tear (teardrop) is makyl

makyl = tear (noun) (some things Google found for "makyl": an unusual to rare term; Makyl Engineering Consulting & Services of Lima, Peru; user names; name of several gaming characters; Makyl Enterprises LLC of Arizona; a very rare last name; a very rare first name)

Word derivation for "tear (teardrop)" :
Basque = malko, Finnish = kyynel
Miresua = makyl

Chapter II in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is titled The Pool of Tears. Alice cried, when she was nine feet high, until there was a large pool all round her.

In Miresua, the nominative plural, tears, will be makylat.

22 October 2013

middle is ereki

ereki = middle (noun) (some things Google found for "ereki": an uncommon term; Heart Ereki is a single by female Japanese idol group AKB48; Ereki no Wakadaishō (translation: The young electric guitar wizard) is a 1965 Japanese movie with the USA title of Campus A-Go-Go; Ereki Magnetic Changeable Lampshades of the UK; user names; a rare last name that can be Hungarian; ereki means electric guitar in Japanese; similar Ereke is the name of a place in Indonesia)

Word derivation for "middle" :
Basque = erdi (also can mean half)
Finnish = keski- and keskikohta
Miresua = ereki

The words center and middle are close in meaning in English, and even closer in Finnish. I think of center of a circle, and middle of a line.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice thought, "When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!"

18 October 2013

center is kesto

kesto = center (noun) (some things Google found for "kesto": a very common term; Kesto (234.48:4) is an album by Finnish experimental electronic music duo Pan Sonic; an unusual last name, notably Republican Michigan State Representative Klint Kesto; a rare first name; means box, chest in Esperanto and Ido; means duration, durability in Finnish; similar Keston is the name of places in the United Kingdom and Australia)

Word derivation for "center" :
Basque = zentro
Finnish = keskipiste (center + point) (prefix keski- can mean central)
Miresua = kesto

Another Basque word for center is erdigune (literally half + site).

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, as Alice fell down the rabbit-hole, she said, "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time? I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth."

14 October 2013

passage (corridor) is pastävä

pastävä = passage (noun) (some things Google found for "pastävä" and "pastava": an uncommon term; Pastava is a rare last name; in Portuguese pastava means "have been pasturing or grazing"; pastava seems to mean something in a language from India; similar Pastavy is the name of a place in Belarus)

Word derivation for "passage (corridor)" :
Basque = pasabide, Finnish = käytävä
Miresua = pastävä

After falling down the rabbit-hole, Alice saw a "long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it."

10 October 2013

sorrow is dosu

dosu = sorrow (noun) (some things Google found for "dosu": an uncommon to common term; Dosu Kinuta is a sound ninja character with a bandaged face in the Japanese anime, manga and game Naruto; a rare first name that is usually masculine; a rare last name that can be Nigerian; DOSU Studio Architecture; name of a place in Romania)

Word derivation for "sorrow" :
Basque = dolu, Finnish = suru
Miresua = dosu

Another Basque word for sorrow is nahigabe, where nahi means desire or wish, and -gabe means lack of or -less.

Alice saw the Mock Turtle sitting sad and lonely on a rock. She asked the Gryphon, "What is his sorrow?"

06 October 2013

easy is helaz

helaz = easy (adjective) (some things Google found for "helaz": an unusual term; HELAZ is a Basque acronym for Hezkuntzarako Laguntza Zerbitzua (Education Help Service); a rare last name; name of several gaming characters; a rare first name; user names)

Word derivation for "easy" :
Basque = erraz, Finnish = helppo
Miresua = helaz

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the Mad Tea-Party scene, the Hatter tells Alice, "You mean you can't take LESS, it's very easy to take MORE than nothing."

02 October 2013

brave is rauske

rauske = brave (adjective) (some things Google found for "rauske": an uncommon term; a rare to unusual last name; user names; a gaming character name; similar Rauski is a rare Finnish masculine name which is a form of Rauno; former German name of Rusko in Silesia region of Poland; name of a place in Bosnia & Herzegovina)

Word derivation for "brave" :
Basque = ausart, Finnish = rohkea
Miresua = rauske

After falling down the rabbit-hole, Alice thought, "after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home!".

30 September 2013

weak is hekul

hekul = weak (adjective) (some things Google found for "hekul": an uncommon to unusual term; user names; a very rare last name; name of several gaming characters; HEKUL is an acronym for Hessisches Kulturlandschaftsprogramm (Hessian Cultural Landscape Program); Captain Hekul is a monster in the game Minions of Mirth; seems to be a prefix meaning "become warm/hot" in Evenki, which is a Tungusic language)

Word derivation for "weak" :
Basque = ahul, Finnish = heikko
Miresua = hekul

The word weak occurs twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

26 September 2013

quick is nasper

nasper = quick (adjective) (some things Google found for "nasper": an uncommon term; NASPER is an acronym for National All Schedules Prescription Electronic Reporting Act; a rare to unusual last name; a misspelling of Napster which is the name of several music focused online services; similar Naspers is a multinational South African mass media and internet company; similar Naspe is the name of a place in Bhutan)

Word derivation for "quick" :
Basque = laster, Finnish = nopea
Miresua = nasper

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Hatter tells the Dormouse "to be quick about it," when telling a story, "or you'll be asleep again before it's done."

22 September 2013

smaller is nitxiapi

nitxiapi = smaller (adjective) (some things Google found for "nitxiapi": an unique term; did not match any documents; somewhat similar Battle of Xiapi was fought in China in the winter of 198 towards the end of the Han Dynasty)

Word derivation for "smaller" :
Basque = txikiago, Finnish = pienempi
Miresua = nitxiapi

For good measure, I decided, to post smaller too. Small is nitxi. The comparative adjective suffix in Miresua is -api.

Alice got uncomfortably large in the White Rabbit's house: "If I eat one of these cakes," she thought, "it's sure to make SOME change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose."

18 September 2013

larger is hurdiapi

hurdiapi = larger (adjective) (some things Google found for "hurdiapi": an unique term; search did not match any documents)

Word derivation for "larger" :
Basque = handiago, Finnish = suurempi
Miresua = hurdiapo

Larger is a comparative adjective. So, I'm getting into some grammar here.

In Basque, the comparative is formed by adding -ago. In Finnish, the comparative adjective is formed by adding -mpi. (Apparently there can be vowel changes too). I decided to make the suffix for the comparative adjective in Miresua be -api.

An adjective in Miresua will be inflected, at a minimum, to agree with the noun it modifies as far as being singular or plural. Miresua plurals are formed by adding -t or -at.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice grows larger and smaller.

14 September 2013

large is hurdi (revisited)

hurdi = large (adjective) (some things Google found for "hurdi": an uncommon term; crossidius hurdi is a species of beetles; Nomada hurdi is a species of cuckoo bees; a rare last name; similar "Hurdy Gurdy Man" is a 1968 song by Donovan, and a hurdy gurdy is a stringed musical instrument with a sound similar to that of bagpipes; Hurdi Hadar is the name of a place in Iraq; Hurdi is the name of a village in Maharashtra, India)

Word derivation for "large" :
Basque = handi, Finnish = suuri
Miresua = hurdi

My previous Miresua conlang word for large was dausi, which was an odd scramble of letters. The new word has more resemblance to both the Basque word and the Finnish word.

Large is a word that occurs many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

10 September 2013

poison is pyzko

pyzko = poison (noun) (some things Google found for "pyzko": a rare term; user names; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; name of several other gaming characters; a rare last name; similar Pzyko is a dark psychedelic night trance music producer & Dj)

Word derivation for "poison"
Basque = pozoi, Finnish = myrkky
Miresua = pyzko

In chapter 1 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice checks the little bottle labeled 'DRINK ME' to see whether it's marked "poison" or not.

06 September 2013

tiny is pikite

pikite = tiny (adjective) (some things Google found for "pikite": an uncommon to unusual term; may be French slang for small or perhaps a misspelling of petite; a very rare last name; user names; similar Pikit is the name of a place in the Philippines)

Word derivation for "tiny"
Basque = txikitxo or txiki,
Finnish = pikkuinen or pikkuruinen
Miresua = pikite

Alice finds a tiny golden key that opens a little door about fifteen inches high.

02 September 2013

rose is ruosa

ruosa = rose (noun) (some things Google found for "ruosa": an uncommon term; a rare last name; World of Warcraft gaming character name; RUOSA brand or ID of lighting fixtures; a rare first name; user names; means rose in Dalmatian; similar ruoša means "preparation, stocking up" in Lithuanian; similar ruoska means whip (noun) in Finnish)

Word derivation for "rose"
Basque = arrosa, Finnish = ruusu
Miresua = ruosa

In chapter 8 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice sees three of the Queen of Hearts' gardeners painting white roses red.

30 August 2013

lobster is otumari

otumari = lobster (noun) (some things Google found for "otumari": a rare term; user names; similar Otomari Honey is a mature Japanese manga; similar Ōtomari is a Kiev based fuzz pop band; similar Otumara is the name of places in Nigeria; similar Ōtomari is the name of places in Japan)

Word derivation for "lobster"
Basque = otarrain, Finnish = hummeri
Miresua = otumari

Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is The Lobster Quadrille. The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon tell Alice about this dance with lobsters, and sing a song.

26 August 2013

lizard is lisker

lisker = lizard (noun) (some things Google found for "lisker": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; Leigh Lisker was an American linguist and phonetician; Bruce Lisker is a California man whose conviction for murder was overturned; a Zoanoid character in science fiction movie The Guyver (1991); name of a Basque progressive rock or folk rock band of the 70s; Lisker Congregation is a NYC Jewish Orthodox synagogue; Lisker's sign is tenderness to percussion of the medial surface of the tibia which suggests deep venous thrombosis)

Word derivation for "lizard"
Basque = musker, Finnish = lisko
Miresua = lisker

Another Finnish word for lizard is sisilisko.

Bill the Lizard is a character appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

22 August 2013

parrot is papakai

papakai = parrot (noun) (some things Google found for "papakai": an unusual term; Papa Kai makes alaia surfboards for ocean use and home decoration in Hawaii and in San Diego; similarly named Papakea Resort on Maui; a very rare last name; Papakai Marae is the (Maori) name of a place in New Zealand; name of a mountain in New Zealand)

Word derivation for "parrot"
Basque = papagai, Finnish = papukaija
Miresua = papakai

The Lory is a character in the Caucus-Race in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lories are small to medium-sized Australasian parrots.

The words for parrot are similar in many European languages.

18 August 2013

mad (crazy) is eulo

eulo = mad (crazy) (adjective) (some things Google found for "eulo": an uncommon term; name of a small opal-mining town in Queensland, Australia; an unusual last name; a rare first name; user names; EULO Grey Water Recycling Kitchen Sink; name of a place in Germany)

Word derivation for "mad (crazy)"
Basque = ero, Finnish = hullu
Miresua = eulo

The adjective mad definitely occurs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. There's the Mad Tea-Party. The Hatter and the March Hare are both mad. The Cheshire Cat tells Alice "We're all mad here."

14 August 2013

hedgehog is sirti

sirti = hedgehog (noun) (some things Google found for "sirti": an uncommon term; Sirti SpA is an Italian civil engineering and network technology company; SIRTI was the acronym for Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute which is now Innovate Washington; a rare last name; Biçak sirti is a Turkish TV series drama; similar Sirt'i is the name of a place in Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "hedgehog"
Basque = triku, Finnish = siili
Miresua = sirti

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, hedgehogs are used as balls at the Queen's croquet ground.

10 August 2013

frog is samagel

samagel = frog (noun) (some things Google found for "samagel": a rare to unusual term; Samagel Manutenção Industrial Ltda ME (Industrial Maintenance) of Mogi Guaçu, Brazil; Samagel Santo André Máquinas e Geladeiras Ltda (Machines and Refrigerators) of Santo André, Brazil; a very rare last name; a very rare first name; user names; Samagel brand fresh oriental vegetables from DetPon Corporation of Guatemala; similar Samage is the name of a place in Papua New Guinea)

Word derivation for "frog"
Basque = igel, Finnish = sammakko
Miresua = samagel

As I've been making words for various creatures lately, there is a Frog-Footman in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

06 August 2013

dormouse is ukixar

ukixar = dormouse (noun) (some things Google found for "ukixar": a rare term; bad OCR of old texts; appears on gobbledygook pages; similar Ukixa Corporation (UKX) is an oil and gas corporation in the Republic of Shaelia on the fictional world of Atoria)

Word derivation for "dormouse"
Basque = muxar, Finnish = unikeko
Miresua = ukixar

In Finnish, another word for dormouse (specifically the Hazel dormouse) is pähkinähiiri, where hiiri means mouse.

The Dormouse is a character at the Mad Tea-Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. At the end of the scene, the March Hare and the Hatter try to put the Dormouse into a teapot.

02 August 2013

hare is järbi

järbi = hare (noun) (some things Google found for "jarbi": an uncommon term; a rare masculine first name; Belizean pro soccer player Jarbi Álvarez; a rare last name; JARBI is an acronym for Journal of Applied Research for Business Instruction; Hasy Jarbi (aka Hassi Jerbi) is the name of a place in Tunisia)

Word derivation for "hare"
Basque = erbi, Finnish = jänis
Miresua = järbi

The March Hare appears in the tea party scene of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By the way, I don't have a word yet for March.

Apologies for my lack of anything resembling grammar lately. This summer has been very busy for me.

30 July 2013

turtle is dirkona

dirkona = turtle (noun) (some things Google found for "dirkona": a rare term; similar Dirkon (sometimes referred to in Czech and in Polish as Dirkona) is paper pinhole camera that was first published as a kit in a 1979 Czechoslovakian magazine; a very rare last name; similar Dhirkona is a village in West Bengal, India)

Word derivation for "turtle"
Basque = dortoka, Finnish = kilpikonna
Miresua = dirkona

The Mock Turtle is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

26 July 2013

child is hapi

hapi = child (noun) (some things Google found for "hapi": a common term; Hapi Mari (aka Happy Martiage!?) is a Japanese manga series; HAPI drums; Hapi brand Asian snacks; HAPI is an Egyptian river god and an Egyptian funerary deity; a brand of Chinese beer from Harbin Brewery; HAPI is an acronym for Hispanic American Periodicals Index; an unusual last name; a rare first name; similar happi is a loose, informal Japanese coat; in Finnish similar happi means oxygen; Hapi Bolaghi is the name of a place in Iran)

Word derivation for "child"
Basque = haur, Finnish = lapsi
Miresua = hapi

Another Basque word for child (or offspring) is ume, which is also used for young animals.

The words child and children can be found in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

22 July 2013

butterfly is pehinexa

pehinexa = butterfly (noun) (some things Google found for "pehinexa": an unique term; similar pexinxa occurs on a number of Brazilian bargain websites and may be a form of the Portuguese word pechincha which means bargain)

Word derivation for "butterfly"
Basque = tximeleta AND pinpilinpauxa
Finnish = perhonen
Miresua = pehinexa

Basque has multiple words for butterfly, perhaps they are from different dialects. I choose the two that seemed most common.

The word butterfly occurs just once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice tells the Caterpillar that some day he'll change into a butterfly.

18 July 2013

caterpillar is tolkar

tolkar = caterpillar (noun) (some things Google found for "tolkar": a common term; Tolkar Makina A. S. of Turkey sells commercial laundry machines; Tolkar Turismo (travel agency) of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; an unusual last name; user names; present tense of the verb meaning to interpret in Swedish)

Word derivation for "caterpillar"
Basque = beldar, Finnish = toukka
Miresua = tolkar

In Finnish toukka means caterpillar and also larva. Another word for caterpillar is perhosentoukka, where perhosen means butterfly or moth.

The Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

14 July 2013

cake is kartu

kartu = cake (noun) (some things Google found for "kartu": a very common term; a rare last name; user names; Kartu languages are a group of Australian Aboriginal languages of Western Australia; means card in Indonesian; means together in Lithuanian; name of places in Syria and Pakistan)

Word derivation for "cake"
Basque = tarta, Finnish = kakku
Miresua = kartu

Cake is a word that appears a handful of times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for cake is now tarku.

10 July 2013

bottle is boulo

boulo = bottle (noun) (some things Google found for "boulo": an uncommon to common term; an unusual last name; a rare first name notably Haitian musician Boulo Valcourt; Ali Boulo Santo is a Senegalese musician; in the Star Wars universe Boulo Siesi was a female Bith artist character; similar boule from the French for ball is a traditional shape of French bread; name of places in the Central African Republic, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Togo)

Word derivation for "bottle"
Basque = botila, Finnish = pullo
Miresua = boulo

The word bottle can be found around ten times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

06 July 2013

truth is tegus

tegus = truth (noun) (some things Google found for "tegus": a common term; tegus are large lizards primarily found in South America which can be pets; a rare last name; in Esperanto conditional of the verb tegi which means to cover protectively; Tegucigalpa, commonly referred to as Tegus, is the capital of Honduras)

Word derivation for "truth (conformity to fact or reality) :
Basque = egia, Finnish = totuus
Miresua = tegus

02 July 2013

garden is puratza

puratza = garden (noun) (some things Google found for "puratza": a very rare term; user name; in Sardinian may mean an tool for pruning; similar Puratz is a rare last name)

Word derivation for "garden" :
Basque = baratze (and lorategi), Finnish = puutarha
Miresua = puratza

In Basque I found two words that can mean garden. The word baratze means vegetable garden and lorategi means flower garden. The Finnish word puutarha seems to a be compound word of tree + enclosure.

30 June 2013

rule is arätö

arätö = rule (noun) (some things Google found for "arato": a common term; an uncommon last name; an unusual generally masculine first name; Arato Castle in Japan; character Arato Endo in dystopia manga Beatless; in Hungarian similar arató means reaper, harvester; in Italian a form of the verb to plough or plow; name of places in Spain (Canary Islands), Japan and Mexico)

Word derivation for "rule (regulation)" :
Basque = arau, Finnish = sääntö
Miresua = arätö

I took the opportunity to use an ö (o umlaut) in my Miresua word.

You can find the word rule or rules around ten times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

26 June 2013

neck is leka

leka = neck (noun) (some things Google found for "leka": a very common term; an unusual last name; an unusual first name that is often masculine; name of several pretender princes to the Albanian throne; LEKA baby toys by IKEA; means sledgehammer in Finnish; means "drip, leak" in Icelandic; name of an island and municipality in Norway and multiple places in Poland)

Word derivation for "neck" :
Basque = lepo, Finnish = kaula
Miresua = leka

This is the word for the part of body and the tapered part of a bottle.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for neck is now laupo.

22 June 2013

stairs is esparat

esparat = stairs (or staircase) (noun) (some things Google found for "esparat":an unusual term; L'Esparat is a restaraunt in Vogue, France; a very rare last name; Esparat (aka Esparat-e Bala and Esparat-e Pa'in) is the name of a place in Iran)

Word derivation for "stairs (or staircase)" :
Basque = eskailera, Finnish = portaat
Miresua = esparat

The Basque word is similar to the Spanish word for stairs, escalera.

I know that I'm not making profound progress, but I'm continuing to add words. I found four occurances of the word stairs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

18 June 2013

shelf is hypal

hypal = shelf (noun) (some things Google found for "hypal": an uncommon term; user names; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; a rare last name; Le Prince Hypal is a convenience Store in Grasse, France; similar hyphal is an adjective for threadlike elements of a fungus; similar hypallage is a literary device which interchanges two elements in a phrase or sentence from a more logical to a less logical relationship)

Word derivation for "shelf" :
Basque = apal, Finnish = hylly
Miresua = hypal

The plural of shelf, shelves, occurs twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.