miresua conlang: yes is käbi

14 February 2007

yes is käbi

käbi = yes (adverb) (assent or agreement or affirmation) (some things Google found for "käbi" and "kabi": a common term; Käbi is a feminine name, notably Estonian concert pianist Käbi Laretei; a last name, also probably Estonian; Käbi Külalistemaja guest house in Estonia; Fresenius Kabi AG is a German company with therapy for critically and chronically ill patients; KABI is a code for Abilene Texas Regional Airport; Kabi Golf Course in Queensland Australia; Kabi Plastics of the UK; "Goizeko Kabi" is the name of a pair of Basque restaurants in Spain; Kabi are an aboriginal people of Australia; Novell kABI Notification Service for Linux kernel changes; "käbi" means "cone" in Estonian; "kabi" means "hoof" in Estonian and means "badly" in Zulu; "Kabi" is the name of places in Gabon, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo, Niger, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Estonia)

Word derivation for "yes" :
Basque = bai, Finnish = kyllä
Miresua = käbi

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About Miresua

Miresua is an imaginary language.

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).