14 February 2014

feather is luhön (revisited)

luhön = feather (noun) (some things Google found for "luhon": an unusual term; Luhon is a rare last name; user names; the Luhon series of soils are deep, well drained and moderately fine textured; name of several gaming characters; a very rare first name; similar Luhong is the name of a place in the Philippines)

Word derivation for "feather":
Basque = luma, Finnish = höyhen
Miresua = luhön

Another word for feather in Finnish is sulka.

My previous Miresua conlang word for feather was höma. I'm trying to lessen, but not eliminate, the number of nouns ending in a.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Duchess said to Alice, "flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is — 'Birds of a feather flock together.'"

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