early is aikoiz

aikoiz = early (adjective) (Some things Google found for "aikoiz": a rare term; name of a gaming character; bad OCR of old text documents; in Finnish similar aikoa means to design to plan; similar Aikolz is user names; similar Aikou is the name of places in China and Taiwan)

Word derivation for "early" :
Basque = goiztiar, Finnish = aikainen
Miresua = aikoiz

This is a new word.

Another Finnish word for early is varhainen.

I made this Miresua conlang word 2 letters shorter than the Basque and the Finnish words. My usual rule is no more than 1 letter shorter. But in this case, I feel it's reasonable to disregard the -nen adjectival suffix on the Finnish word. And in Basque, goiz is the adverb for early.

The word early doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass.

elegant is dotylä

dotylä = elegant (adjective) (Some things Google found for "dotyla": a rare to unusual term; user names; a very rare name; dotyla seems to mean something in Polish but I'm unable to translate it)

Word derivation for "elegant" :
Basque = dotore, Finnish = tyylikäs
Miresua = dotylä

This is a new word. There are very few words in Miresua that start with D, so I'm taking the opportunity to make one here.

I found the word elegant once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It appears in Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale.

"Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying "We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble"; and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered."

mean (cruel) is inkeä

inkeä = mean (adjective) (Some things Google found for "inkea": an uncommon term; a French e-commerce printing equipment company; INkea Ltd was the former name of a Croatian furniture company; INKEA s.r.o. is a Czech furniture company which may be connected; a rare first name; similar Inkee is the name of a place in Finland)

Word derivation for "mean" (cruel) :
Basque = anker, Finnish = ilkeä
Miresua = inkeä

This is a new word.

The word mean appears as a verb in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-glass, but not as an adjective.

white is zulko (revisited)

zulko = white (color) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "zulko": an unusual term; user names; a rare last name that can be Polish or Slovak; gaming character names; similar Olympus camera Zuiko lenses; similar Zulkovo is another name for the village of Slavyani in Bulgaria)

Word derivation for "white" :
Basque = zuri, Finnish = valkoinen (valko)
Miresua = zulko

My previous Miresua conlang word for white was zulki. This is a small change. I'm changing the final vowel to the more unusual -O. This is to make the word stand out more. When forming the word, I dropped the adjective forming suffix -INEN from the Finnish source word.

Of course, the word white appears many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"...when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her."

orange (color) is aransi (revisited)

aransi = orange (color) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "aransi": an unusual term; ARANSI is a French company offering training services for business managers; a rare last name; a rare first name that can be Nigerian; Aransi Importaciones S.a.s. is an automotive parts importer in Colombia; similar arancia means orange (fruit) in Italian; similar Arans is the name of a village in Andorra; similar Aransa is a Catalan ski resort; similar Aranshi is the name of a place in Kazakhstan)

Word derivation for "orange (color)" :
Basque = laranja, Finnish = oranssi
Miresua = aransi

My previous word for orange (color) was laransi. I dropped the initial L mainly for aesthetic reasons. This change makes the word for the color orange look even less like the word for orange, the fruit, which is laperni.

The word orange (color) doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass. Although ORANGE MARMALADE is mentioned once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

soft is bimeä (revisited)

bimeä = soft (adjective) (Some things Google found for "bimea": an unusual term; Bimea is a UK P2P food import / export company; BiMEA is a German retinal science research project; BIMEA is Binh Duong Mechanical Electrical Association of Vietnam; Bimea is a very rare first name)

Word derivation for "soft":
Basque = bigun, Finnish = pehmeä
Miresua = bimeä

My previous Miresua conlang word for soft was pebun.

The word soft appears once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote refers to Alice's cat Dinah.

Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, "and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face -- and she is such a nice soft thing..."

brown is rumare (revisited)

rumare = brown (color) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "rumare": an unusual to uncommon term; in the Elder Scrolls video game Rumare Slaughterfish live in Lake Rumare; an unusual last name; LEGO castle design called Abbey of Saint Rumare; similar Rumara is a place in Papua New Guinea)

Word derivation for "brown" :
Basque = marroi, Finnish = ruskea
Miresua = rumare

My previous Miresua conlang word for brown was rarko. I think the new word is less of an alphabetic scramble, plus it uses the M.

The word brown appears twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair!"

fat (adjective) is lova (revisited)

lova = fat (adjective) (Some things Google found for "lova": a very common term; an unusual to uncommon usually feminine first name; an unusual last name; Lova Lova is an 2009 album and song title by French pop/rock band Superbus; 868 Lova is a minor planet or asteroid orbiting the Sun; IKEA Lova (or Löva) children's bed canopy; Lova Weddings of Shanghai; Lova Hotel Spa in Turkey; in French a conjugation of the verb lover which means to coil; in Hungarian lova is the third-person singular possessive of ló which means horse; in Lithuanian similar lóva means bed; name of a village in Italy)

Word derivation for "fat" (adjective) :
Basque = lodi, Finnish = lihava
Miresua = lova

My previous word for fat (adjective) was lida. I like lova better for this word and, in addition, Lova is a rarer first name than Lida.

Regretfully, I've decided to decrease the number of scheduled postings to this blog to four per month. I seriously need to update my dictionary.

I found the word fat once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the poem "You Are Old, Father William".

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
Pray, what is the reason of that?"

pink is pinsa (revisited)

pinsa = pink (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "pinsa": an uncommon term; Pinsa Romana is an oval shaped flatbread type of pizza; Grupo Pinsa is a tuna industry company based in Mexico; an unusual last name; in Latin pinsa is inflected forms of pinsus which means pounded; similar pinza (sometimes spelled pinsa) is a traditional Venetian cake made with cornmeal and raisins; similar Pinse means Pentecost in Norwegian)

Word derivation for "pink" :
Basque = arrosa, Finnish = pinkki
Miresua = pinsa

My previous Miresua conlang word for pink was poska. Somehow I just didn't like that word.

I missed my scheduled post for the 22nd last week. Simply got busy doing other things.

Both the Basque word and the Finnish word for pink appear to be borrowed words. There's another word in Finnish for pink, vaaleanpunainen, which translates as light-red, but I didn't care to deal with that 15-letter word for pink.

I found one instance of the word pink in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

flat is latä (revisited)

latä = flat (shape) (adjective) (some things Google found for "lata": a common term; LATA is an acronym for Local Access and Transport Area used in U.S. telecommunications regulation; Lata Mangeshkar is a Indian playback singer; Lata is a Hindu Indian female first name; LATA stands for Los Alamos Technical Associates; lata means wide in Latin; lata means summers in Polish; lata means can or tin in Spanish; Lata Mountain in American Samoa; Lata is the name of places in Uzbekistan, Solomon Islands, Burma, India, Portugal, and Colombia)

Word derivation for "flat" (having no variations in height):
Basque = lau, Finnish = litteä
Miresua = latä

My previous Miresua conlang word for flat was lati. A small change to end the word in -Ä.

I found the word flat twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

At this moment Five, who had been anxiously looking across the garden, called out "The Queen! The Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon their faces.

dark is ilmeä (lack of light) (revisited)

ilmeä = dark (adjective) (Some things Google found for "ilmea" and "ilmeä": an uncommon term; ILMEA is an acronym for Illinois Music Education Association; ILMEA S.r.l. of Italy designs and manufactures hydraulic equipment for the fishing industry; ilmeä is bad OCR of old text documents; similar Ilmia is a very rare feminine first name; similar ilme in Finnish means facial expression, look; similar Ilme or Ilmee is a place in Russia near Finland)

Word derivation for "dark" (lack of light):
Basque = ilun, Finnish = pimeä (lack of light)
Miresua = ilmeä

My previous Miresua conlang word for dark (lack of light) was ilme. This is a small change. There is a separate word for dark (of color).

The word dark appears three times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is after Alice lands from falling down the rabbit-hole.

"Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead..."

sweet is mozea (revisited)

mozea = sweet (adjective) (Some things Google found for "mozea": an uncommon term; a rare to unusual last name; a rare first name; Mozea Rousseau was a member of Austin's Second Colony in Texas in the 1830s; Mozea Acrylic Clawfoot Tub sold by Signature Hardware; Mozea Akiba of the University of Mahajanga is a museum in Madagascar)

Word derivation for "sweet" (taste):
Basque = gozo, Finnish = makea
Miresua = mozea

My previous Miresua conlang word for sweet was moze, but before that it was mozea. I've decided that only nouns, not adjectives, get a suffix of -A when used with the definite article. Hence I have no issues whatsoever about ending adjectives in -A and -Ä, and even -EA and -EÄ.

The word sweet can be found once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is from the Duchess.

"...Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered," she went on, very much pleased at having found out a new kind of rule, "and vinegar that makes them sour -- and camomile that makes them bitter -- and -- and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered."

green is bereä (revisited)

bereä = green (color) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "berea": a common term; Berea College in Kentucky; Berea is the historic name of a city in northern Greece mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible which is the city now known as Veria; pen kits from Berea Hardwoods Co. of Ohio; Camp Berea in New Hampshire; Berea district of Lesotho; Berea is the name of places in Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina, West Virgina, Nebraska, South Africa and Romania)

Word derivation for "green" :
Basque = berde, Finnish = vihreä
Miresua = bereä

My previous Miresua conlang word for green was virbe. This for me is a major change. I've decided to allow the EÄ (and also EA) vowel combination on the end of words that are adjectives.

The word green can be found four times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is from a song sung by the Mock Turtle.

"Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
Waiting in a hot tureen!"

final (last) is apulen

apulen = final (adjective) (some things Google found for "apulen": an unusual term; user names; similar Apuleni is a rare last name; Ye Pikvu Apulen Shet is a Marathi song title; Rio Apulen (or Appeleg) may be the name of river on the Argentina - Chile border; similar Apulien is the German name for Apulia which is a region of southern Italy)

Word derivation for "final (last, ultimate)":
Basque = azken, Finnish = lopullinen
Miresua = apulen

Another Basque word for final is the similar azkeneko. Another Finnish word for final is viimeinen.

The word final does not appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass.

last (most recent) is vizke

vizke = last (adjective) (some things Google found for "vizke": a rare term; user names; a rare last name; similar Vizkeleti is an unusual last name that can be Hungarian; similar Vizka is the name of a place in the Czech Republic)

Word derivation for "last (most recent, last so far)":
Basque = azken, Finnish = viime
Miresua = vizke

The word last occurs many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Most occurrences are as at last, although a handful are adjectives meaning most recent.

"We quarrelled last March -- just before HE went mad, you know --" (pointing with his tea spoon at the March Hare,)...

timid is areke

areke = timid (adjective) (some things Google found for "areke": an uncommon term; a drinkable liquor produced in Ethiopia; an unusual often feminine first name; a rare last name; Pension Areke Chez Kayser is a hotel in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia; apparently in Amharic which is a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia areke means liquor; similar Areka is the name of a place in Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "timid" :
Basque = herabe, Finnish = arka
Miresua = areke

Another Basque word for timid is lotsati. Another Finnish word for timid is pelokas.

The word timid appears three times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In addition, timidly occurs nine times.

Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, "If you please, sir--" The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

round is bipöri

bipöri = round (shape) (adjective) (some things Google found for "bipori": a rare term; user names; seems to mean biopore in Indonesian; similar Biporo is the name of a place in the Solomon Islands)

Word derivation for "round" (circular or cylindrical):
Basque = biribil, Finnish = pyöreä
Miresua = bipöri

I found the word round numerous times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although all but three were in contexts which I, being an American, would have likely used the word around instead. This is a difference between British English and American English. Alice's author, Lewis Carroll, was a 19th century English writer.

Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round...

many is moso

moso = many (adjective) (some things Google found for "moso": an uncommon term; moso bamboo (AKA phyllostachys edulis) is a species of bamboo; MOSO International B.V. of the Netherlands sells bamboo flooring and panel products; Moso Natural Air Purifying Bag which contains moso bamboo charcoal; Moso video software; the Moso (AKA Mosuo) people are a Chinese ethnic group; in Haitian Creole moso means piece; name of an small island in Vanuatu; Moso in Passiria (AKA Moos in Passeier) is the name of a town in northern Italy; name of places in Eritrea, Chad and South Korea)

Word derivation for "many":
Basque = asko, Finnish = moni
Miresua = moso

Many is an indefinite large number.

The word many occurs a dozen times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had VERY long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect.

few is hatxi

hatxi = few (adjective) (some things Google found for "hatxi": a rare term; user names; a rare first name; name of a dog that was adopted from a shelter group in Alicante, Spain; HATXI is an aviation waypoint in California; name of gaming characters; bad OCR of old text documents; may mean something in Vietnamese (transliterated); similar Haxi is the name of a place in Gansu Sheng, China)

Word derivation for "few":
Basque = gutxi, Finnish = harvat
Miresua = hatxi

The TX consonant combination in Miresua, as in Basque, is pronounced like CH.

I found ten occurrences of the word few in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Six of them refer to few minutes, and two of them refer to few things.

For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

black is metza (reinstated)

metza = black (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "metza": an uncommon term; a unusual last name; a rare feminine first name; user names; Metza bar ceiling spotlight and Metza barstool from UK sellers; Metza bath accessories sold by Alder Tapware of Australia; title of a house techno song by Reggy Van Oers; metza metz is a misspelling and mispronounciation of the Italian phrase mezzo e mezzo which means so-so; gaming character names; similar Metze is the name of a place in Germany)

Word derivation for "black" :
Basque = beltz, Finnish = musta
Miresua = metza

I'm reinstating metza as the Miresua conlang word for black. I changed metza to metz because I thought I would be adding a suffix of -A for the definite article on adjectives. In Basque, adjectives are at the end of a noun phrase. Instead I've decided to modify the word order within noun phrases so that the noun is at the end of the noun phrase, more like Finnish (or English). In other words, I'm good with ending adjectives in -A.

The word black doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although blacking (a shoe polish) is mentioned. I found black a handful of times in Through the Looking-Glass, including in the first sentence of the book.

One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do with it: -- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.