miresua conlang: astronomy

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06 December 2015

moon is kurgi (revisited)

kurgi = moon (noun) (Some things Google found for "kurgi": an uncommon term; a rare last name; user names; in Estonian genitive form of kurk which means cucumber; means where then in Lithuanian; name of a places in Sudan and India)

Word derivation for "moon":
Basque = ilargi, Finnish = kuu
Miresua = kurgi

My previous Miresua conlang word for moon was kuila. I'm changing this word so that it doesn't end in -A.

The word moon appears one time in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into a doze; but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with a little shriek, and went on: "-- that begins with an M, such as mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness...

24 July 2012

star is tizä (revisited)

tizä = star (noun) (some things Google found for "tiza": a very common term; an unusual last name; an unusual feminine first name; TIZA.com sells Prom Dresses; TiZA is an acronym for Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a controversial Islamic-themed charter school in Minnesota; tiza and tizä are user names; name of a font; means chalk in Spanish; La Tiza is a town in Panama; name of places in the Philippines, Ghana and Algeria)

Word derivation for "star" :
Basque = izar, Finnish = tähti
Miresua = tizä

My previous Miresua conlang word for star was itzä, which was an OK word, but too similar to my word for very, itso. Earlier, I changed my word for wolf from isto to suto for exactly the same reason. My new word is somewhat similar to my word for sky or heaven, taizu, but I think it's different enough in pronunciation.

22 December 2009

sun is ugenki (revisited)

ugenki = sun (noun) (some things Google found for "ugenki": a rare term; user names; similar name Genki was a Japanese era in the 16th century and is a Japanese company in the computer and video games industry)

Word derivation for "sun" :
Basque = eguzki, Finnish = aurinko
Miresua = ugenki

My previous Miresua conlang word for "sun" was "urzeni". I changed this word to be more similar to the Basque and the Finnish words, such as having a k as the second to last letter in the word.

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).