30 April 2007

autumn is küseda (revisited)

küseda = autumn (season) (noun and adjective) (some things Google found for "kuseda": an uncommon to rare term; seems to mean something in Estonian but I was unable to translate it; name of a village in Madhya Pradesh state in India; a user name)

Word derivation for "autumn" :
Basque = udazken, Finnish = syksy (sksü)
Miresua = küseda

Previously the word for autumn was kyseda. This minor change uses my conlang modification rule which allows two letters y to be replaced by a ü.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. I'm removing the ü (u umlaut). The word for autumn is now udaksy.

28 April 2007

cow is häbe

häbe = cow (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "häbe" or "habe": a common term; habe means has in German; a last name, notably Austrian writer and newspaper publisher Hans Habe; HABE is penny stock symbol for research and development company Haber Inc.; user name; Habe Toys China Ltd; HABE is an acronym for High Altitude Balloon Experiment; habe means beam, girder in Basque; habe means there will be in Sanskit; Habe is the name of places in Nigeria, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, and Ethiopia)

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

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

27 April 2007

lead is binür (redone)

binür = lead (metal) (noun) (some things Google found for "binür" or "binur": an uncommon term; Binur is a last name, notably Israeli journalist Yoram Binur; Binur S.A. is a harbor operator in Uruguay; Binur is the name of a place in India)

Word derivation for "lead" :
Basque = berun, Finnish = lyijy (lijü)
Miresua = binür

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "lead" is now "lunyr".

26 April 2007

rules for Miresua :: a new letter

For Miresua, I pick a mixture of the letters from the Basque and Finnish words. But how should these letters be pronounced? Good question. As to be expected, Basque and Finnish pronounce things differently.

After some consideration, I've decided to add a new letter to the Miresua conlang. This will be an exception to my alphabetic mixture word construction.

I'm adding the letter ü -- that is u with an umlaut or two dots over it. It’ll be pronounced like u in the French word tu or the German letter ü. This is a reasonable addition. Miresua already uses two letters with umlauts -- ä and ö -- courtesy of its Finnish derivation. The ü sound is already present in Finnish; it's the letter y in Finnish. Estonian, which is a language closely related to Finnish, uses ü, instead of y, for this vowel. There is also a Basque dialect that makes use of an occasional ü.

Tentatively, my new rule is this: if the Finnish source word contains two "y"s, they can be replaced by a ü. I'll be modifying several existing Miresua words to take advantage of this change.

24 April 2007

wine is voira

voira = wine (noun) (some things Google found for "voira": an uncommon term; Voira is a Lithuanian toy company; appears to mean "will see" in Old French; a character name; a last name)

Word derivation for "wine" :
Basque = ardo, Finnish = viini
Miresua = voira

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for wine is now vido.

20 April 2007

hour is tidu

tidu = hour (noun) (some things Google found for "tidu": an uncommon term; a last name that's likely Italian; user name; a first name; an ancient Assyrian fortified town; a place in Iran)

Word derivation for "hour" :
Basque = ordu, Finnish = tunti
Miresua = tidu

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for hour is now ontu.

16 April 2007

lion is loijen

loijen = lion (noun) (animal) (some things Google found for "loijen": a rare term; a Dutch last name)

Word derivation for "lion" :
Basque = lehoi, Finnish = leijona
Miresua = loijen

This Miresua word has been changed. The word for lion is now leijo.

12 April 2007

woman is nemane

nemane = woman (noun) (some things Google found for "nemane": an uncommon term; a last name which can be from India; there's a Nemane School in Zimbabwe; "nemanė" means something in Lithuanian; seems to mean something in Kurdish; a "némane" is an object of some sort in French, possibly a car or scooter part)

Word derivation for "woman" :
Basque = emakume, Finnish = nainen
Miresua = nemane

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "woman" is now "naneme".

08 April 2007

man is mosin

mosin = man (noun) (some things Google found for "mosin": an uncommon term; Mosin-Nagant is a Russian military rifle which was in service from 1891-1998; a last name, notably Sergei Ivanovich Mosin designer of the rifle; name of places in Belarus, Russian Federation, and South Korea)

Word derivation for "man" :
Basque = gizon, Finnish = mies
Miresua = mosin

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "man" is now "gines".

04 April 2007

new is burui

burui = new (adjective) (some things Google found for "burui": a rare term; Burui language of Papua New Guinea; means "class, heading, group, category" in Japanese; name of places in Papua New Guinea and India; place Hato Burui in Venezuela)

Word derivation for "new" :
Basque = berri, Finnish = uusi
Miresua = burui

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "new" is now "ubri".