leg is sänki (revisited)

sänki = leg (noun) (Some things Google found for sanki and sänki: a very common term; Sanki Global is a health and wellness company; Sanki Sliding Center near Sochi, Russia; Sanki Engineering Co Ltd of Japan; Sanki Machine Tools of India; Sanki King is a Pakistani graffiti artist; Sanki Shoji Co Ltd is a fashion importer in Japan; Sanki is an unusual last name; Sanki is a rare first name; in Finnish sänki means stubble; in Polish sanki means sledge; in Turkish sanki means as if, as though; Sanki is the name of places in Pakistan, Poland, the Congo, and Russia)

Word derivation for "leg" (anatomy):
Basque = hanka, Finnish = sääri
Miresua = sänki

My previous Miresua conlang word for leg was särka. I'm changing this word not to end in -A. I'm going to disregard that sänki means stubble in Finnish.

Another Finnish word for leg is jalka, which also means foot, leg.

I found the word legs three times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although one of those times referred to table legs.

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo: she succeeded in getting its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under her arm, with its legs hanging down...

thumb is peuro

peuro = thumb (noun) (some things Google found for "peuro": an unusual to uncommon term; a rare last name; user names; part of a bad misspelling of Puerto Rico; several gaming character names; Iso-Peuro and Pieni-Peuro are lakes in Eastern Finland; similar Peura is the name of a town on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia)

Word derivation for "thumb" :
Basque = erpuru, Finnish = peukalo
Miresua = peuro

Another new word for a body part. This word is one letter shorter than the shorter word, in this case the Basque word, which is OK under my rules.

The word thumb doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But it appears twice in Through the Looking-glass.

"That's just what I complain of," said Humpty Dumpty. "Your face is the same as everybody has -- the two eyes, so --" (marking their places in the air with this thumb) "nose in the middle, mouth under. It's always the same. Now if you had the two eyes on the same side of the nose, for instance -- or the mouth at the top -- that would be SOME help."

lip is hulain

hulain = lip (noun) (some things Google found for "hulain": an unusual term; a rare to unusual last name; a rare first name; Hulain Saleh Noor Degree College in Bangladesh; Hulain Bruno is a house painter in France; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; in Finnish similar hulina means disturbance, hullabaloo; name of a place in Bangladesh)

Word derivation for "lip" :
Basque = ezpain, Finnish = huuli
Miresua = hulain

This new word is for lip, the fleshy protrusion framing the mouth.

The plural lips occurs once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

...her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips.

throat is ezturku

ezturku = throat (noun) (some things Google found for "ezturku": a very rare term; appears in Bosnian text about football (soccer) perhaps as a last name; similar ez türkü appears on several Turkish webpages and translates as crush folk song; several webpages mention similar car rental EZ Turku, Finland (E-Z Rent-A-Car in Turku); similar Ezturk is a very rare last name)

Word derivation for "throat" :
Basque = eztarri, Finnish = kurkku
Miresua = ezturku

Another new body part word. The throat is the passage from the mouth to the stomach or to the lungs, and the front part of the neck.

The Finnish word, kurkku, has a second meaning, with different etymology, of cucumber.

I found two occurrences of the word throat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Some of the birds hurried off at once: one old Magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, "I really must be getting home; the night-air doesn't suit my throat!"

shoulder is solkadä

solkadä = shoulder (noun) (some things Google found for "solkada": an unusual to rare term; user names; similar sol kada appears in the text of several Croatian webpages and means "salt when"; similar solkadhi is a coconut milk and kokum drink from the Konkan region of India)

Word derivation for "shoulder" :
Basque = sorbalda, Finnish = olkapää
Miresua = solkadä

This new word, shoulder, is for the part of the body, not the part of a road where drivers may stop in an emergency.

Another word in Finnish for shoulder is hartia. Another word in Basque for shoulder is besaburu.

The Basque word ends in -A, and the Finnish word ends in -Ä. So I can't truly avoid having a vowel ending of A (or Ä) on this Miresua word.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I found eight occurrences of shoulder (half of which were the plural, shoulders)

Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. "What a funny watch!" she remarked. "It tells the day of the month, and doesn't tell what o'clock it is!"

neck is laupo (revisited)

laupo = neck (noun) (some things Google found for "laupo": an unusual term; a rare first name; user names; gaming character names; may be a Germanic word which means marshy meadows; a very rare last name; similar Lake Taupo in New Zealand; name of a place in the Brittany region of France)

Word derivation for "neck" :
Basque = lepo, Finnish = kaula
Miresua = laupo

This is the word for the part of body and the tapered part of a bottle.

OK, let's try this again. I'm redoing the word I did in my previous post, only 4 days ago. My previous Miresua conlang word for neck was kaupo, which I realized after publishing it, didn't use the letter L. I try to utilize letters that are in both the Basque word and the Finnish word.

I found seven occurrences of the word neck in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, here's another one of them:

...before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken.

head is päru (revisited)

päru = head (noun) (some things Google found for "päru" and "paru": a very common term; Paru's Indian Vegetarian Restaurant in Los Angeles, CA; Paru (and Päru) is an unusual usually feminine first name; Paru is an unusual to rare last name; Paru Co., Ltd is a Korean solar trackers company; paru in Finnish is conjugations of the verb parkua which means to bawl, to cry loudly; paru in French is the past participle of verb paraître meaning to appear, to be published; paru-paru means lung in Indonesian and Malay; in Maori paru means dirt, mud; Paru River (Rio Paru) in northern Brazil; similar Pärnu is a city in Estonia)

Word derivation for "head" :
Basque = buru, Finnish = pää
Miresua = päru

My previous Miresua conlang word for head was bupä. I'm changing this word so it doesn't end in -Ä, and to avoid having the entire Finnish word appear when combined with the definite article (bupää). Also, it was a peculiar word.

The word head occurs many, many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed "Off with her head! Off--"

ear is korari (revisited)

korari = ear (noun) (some things Google found for "korari": an uncommon term; a native New Zealand flax plant; Naot Footwear's Korari shoe is a women's Mary Jane flat; user name; a street name in Auckland, New Zealand; Korari Cave in action RPG game Torchlight II; name of a jungle planet in the game Aliens versus Predator 2; a rare last name; name of a place in Bihar, India)

Word derivation for "ear" :
Basque = belarri, Finnish = korva
Miresua = korari

My previous Miresua conlang word for ear was kobera. This is another of my updates to lessen the number of nouns ending in -A.

The word ear (and also ears) occurs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, including this quote referring to the Cheshire Cat.

The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear.

hand is uski (revisited)

uski = hand (noun) (some things Google found for "uski": a common term; an unusual last name that can be Finnish; Uski Roti (English title: Our Daily Bread) is a 1969 Hindi drama film; USKI ski equipment designed for children; in Serbo-Croatian uski is forms of uzak meaning narrow; means her in Hindi (transliterated); name of places in Finland and Russia)

Word derivation for "hand" :
Basque = esku, Finnish = käsi
Miresua = uski

My previous Miresua word for hand was uskä. This is a very minor change. I'm trying to lessen the number of nouns ending in a or ä. It'll make the grammar somewhat simplier.

The word hand occurs many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. When the Hatter was called as the first witness in court, "he came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other."

paw is känpa

känpa = paw (noun) (some things Google found for "kanpa": an uncommon term; Kanpa International Sales is a Pakistani seafood company; a rare last name; kanpa can mean fund raising in Japanese when transliterated; name of a place in Maharashtra, India; name of a small community in Western Australia; similar Kanp'a is a place in South Korea)

Word derivation for "paw"
Basque = hanka, Finnish = käpälä
Miresua = känpa

Another word in Finnish for paw is tassu.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice said of her cat Dinah, "she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face..."

tail is häztan

häztan = tail (noun) (some things Google found for "haztan": a rare term; user names; Haztan Automotive Limited and Haztan Group Limited are or were companies in New Zealand; a rare last name; similar Hazlan is an unusual masculine name that can be Malaysian; similar Hazlan is a domain in the Ravenloft gaming world)

Word derivation for "tail"
Basque = häntä, Finnish = buztan
Miresua = häztan

Another word in Finnish for tail is pyrstö.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat "vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin..."

whisker is viboke

viboke = whisker (noun) (some things Google found for "viboke": a rare term; user names; gaming character names; similar Vibok Works is a Spanish studio for publishing, art and architecture; similar Vibeke is a Scandinavian feminine first name; similar Viboge is the name of a place in Denmark)

Word derivation for "whisker"
Basque = bibote (whisker, mustache)
Finnish = viiksi (whisker, half of a mustache) (mustache is viikset)
Miresua = viboke

Another Finnish word for whisker is viiksikarva, where karva means hair, fur.

The Basque word for whisker, bibote, is from the Spanish word for mustache and whisker, bigote.

Whiskers, the plural, such as of a cat, will be viboket. This word will also mean mustache. By the way, there are other words in Basque and Finnish for hair in a beard or sideburns.

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Queen of Hearts shrieked out, "Turn that Dormouse out of court! Suppress him! Pinch him! Off with his whiskers!"

elbow is kynädo

kynädo = elbow (noun) (some things Google found for "kynado": a rare term; user names; nickname for a toddler boy; similar KYNAR 500 PVDF resin is used in high-end paints for metals)

Word derivation for "elbow"
Basque = ukondo, Finnish = kyynärpää
Miresua = kynädo

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in the Mad Tea-Party chapter, the March Hare and the Hatter had the sleeping Dormouse sitting between them, and they "were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it".

By the way, the plural, elbows, would be kynädot.

chin is lekos

lekos = chin (noun) (some things Google found for "lekos": a uncommon term; Lekos are ellipsoidal reflector spotlights for stage lighting; an unusual last name that can be Greek; Lekos Dye & Finishing of the Greater Los Angeles area; LEKOS s.r.o. is a company in Slovakia that sells equipment for making candies or sweets; means will lick in Esperanto)

Word derivation for "chin":
Basque = kokots, Finnish = leuka
Miresua = lekos

In chapter 2 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Pool of Tears, Alice "was up to her chin in salt water".

claw is kyspar

kyspar = claw (noun) (some things Google found for "kyspar": an unusual to rare term; user names; a very rare first name; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; means lock in Grednian which is a conlang; similar Kaspar is an uncommon masculine first name and an uncommon last name)

Word derivation for "claw":
Basque = atzapar, Finnish = kynsi
Miresua = kyspar

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, the Cheshire Cat had "VERY long claws and a great many teeth".

blood is erdo (revisited)

erdo = blood (noun) (some things Google found for "erdo": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; ERDO is an acronym for Emergency Relief and Development Overseas a mission of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada; an unusual first name; Dj Erdo has Mp3s; similar word erdő means forest or woods in Hungarian; Erdő (or Erdo) is the name of cities in Hungary; name of a village in Spain)

Word derivation for "blood" :
Basque = odol, Finnish = veri
Miresua = erdo

My previous Miresua word for blood was ordi. That word seemed too similar to the English word order for my tastes. I can, and do, change my mind on words.

toe is varatz

varatz = toe (noun) (some things Google found for "varatz": a rare term; Varatz lapter (English title A Burning Lantern) is an Armenian 1983 drama film; user names; similar word varats means of being in Swedish, and Varats olidliga lätthet is the Swedish translation of the book and film title The Unbearable Lightness of Being)

Word derivation for "toe" :
Basque = behatz, Finnish = varvas
Miresua = varatz

Note that in Basque the word for finger is hatz and toe is behatz. In Miresua I lose that similarily. My word for finger is hami. The Finnish words don't look alike in any way, in Finnish finger is sormi and toe is varvas.

knee is polbun

polbun = knee (noun) (some things Google found for "polbun": a very rare term; a rare last name that can be Thai; similar POLBAN is an acronym for Politeknik Negeri Bandung (Bandung State Polytechnic) a university in Indonesia)

Word derivation for "knee" :
Basque = belaun, Finnish = polvi
Miresua = polbun

heart is sydotz

sydotz = heart (noun) (some things Google found for "sydotz": a very rare term; user names; similarly named Sydot is the name of a 1980s alien action figure character, part of the Power Lords)

Word derivation for "heart" :
Basque = bihotz, Finnish = sydän
Miresua = sydotz

tooth is hormas

hormas = tooth (noun) (some things Google found for "hormas": an uncommon term; means "forms, molds, shoe trees, hat blocks" in Spanish; Hormas El Arbol is a Mexican company selling shoe blocks; an unusual last name; user names; similar word horma means ice or wall in Basque; Hormas (perhaps better known as Ormas) is a village in the Cantabria region of northern Spain)

Word derivation for "tooth" :
Basque = hortz, Finnish = hammas
Miresua = hormas

The Miresua word starts with H because both the Basque and Finnish words start with H.