esparat = stairs (or staircase) (noun) (some things Google found for "esparat":an unusual term; L'Esparat is a restaraunt in Vogue, France; a very rare last name; Esparat (aka Esparat-e Bala and Esparat-e Pa'in) is the name of a place in Iran)
Word derivation for "stairs (or staircase)" :
Basque = eskailera, Finnish = portaat
Miresua = esparat
The Basque word is similar to the Spanish word for stairs, escalera.
I know that I'm not making profound progress, but I'm continuing to add words. I found four occurances of the word stairs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Miresua is an imaginary, artificial, constructed language; a conlang. These words are not randomly generated. Miresua is an eclectic alphabetic mix of Basque and Finnish, two unrelated European languages.
Showing posts with label building parts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building parts. Show all posts
22 June 2013
18 June 2013
shelf is hypal
hypal = shelf (noun) (some things Google found for "hypal": an uncommon term; user names; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; a rare last name; Le Prince Hypal is a convenience Store in Grasse, France; similar hyphal is an adjective for threadlike elements of a fungus; similar hypallage is a literary device which interchanges two elements in a phrase or sentence from a more logical to a less logical relationship)
Word derivation for "shelf" :
Basque = apal, Finnish = hylly
Miresua = hypal
The plural of shelf, shelves, occurs twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Word derivation for "shelf" :
Basque = apal, Finnish = hylly
Miresua = hypal
The plural of shelf, shelves, occurs twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
02 June 2013
room is gune
gune = room (noun) (some things that Google found for "gune": a very common term; an uncommon last name that can be from India; a rare first name; name of an eccentric scientist character in animated film Titan A.E. (2000); means site in Basque; means "a woman of any age" in New Testament Greek (transliterated); means "kind, type, sort" in Persian
(transliterated); Chefe Gune is the name of a place in Mozambique)Word derivation for "room" :
Basque = gela, Finnish = huone
Miresua = gune
This is the word for room, as in a division in a building. It appears later on in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
14 May 2013
window is ileku (revisited)
ileku = window (noun) (some things Google found for "ileku": an uncommon to unusual term; user names; similar Oleku is the title of an apparently popular Afrobeat song by Nigerian rapper Ice Prince; Ileku (or Eleku) is the name of a stream in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)Word derivation for "window" :
Basque = leiho, Finnish = ikkuna
Miresua = ileku
My previous Miresua word for window was naihe, which was, in my opinion, a peculiar alphabetic scramble.
I checked, the word window does appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
10 May 2013
key is gilvan (revisited)
gilvan = key (noun) (some things Google found for "gilvan": a common term; a uncommon masculine first name that is usually Brazilian which apparently is a variant of Giovanni; a unusual last name; Gilvan Packaging Corporation of the Philippines; contemporary British painter performer The Baron Gilvan; name of places in Iran)Word derivation for "key" :
Basque = giltza, Finnish = avain
Miresua = gilvan
My previous Miresua word for key was iltava. This is another revision. I redid this word to not end in A. As a bonus, the new word starts in G, which is uncommon in Miresua. Only borrowed words start in G in Finnish.
Another Basque word for key is gako.
The word key appears around ten times in the text of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
06 May 2013
lock is larako (revisited)
larako = lock (noun) (some things Google found for "larako": an unusual to rare term; a rare last name; part of the name of a 14th century Lord of Biscay; user names; Larako is a small freight company in Latvia; means "pin, peg, dowel" in Basque; seems to mean something in Malagasy)Word derivation for "lock" :
Basque = sarraila, Finnish = lukko
Miresua = larako
My previous Miresua word for lock was lurroka. This is another change to lessen the number of words ending in A.
The word lock appears a couple times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
04 May 2013
door is ave (revisited)
ave = door (noun) (some things Google found for "ave": a very common term; in English ave. is an abbreviation for avenue; the Ave Maria or Hail Mary is a traditional Catholic prayer; AVE is an acronym for Alta Velocidad Española a high-speed rail service in Spain; interjection or salutation meaning hail! in Latin and Italian; means grandfatherly in Esperanto; means bird in Galician, Interlingua, Portuguese and Spanish; name of a river and subregion in Portugal; name of a place in France)Word derivation for "door" :
Basque = ate, Finnish = ovi
Miresua = ave
My previous Miresua word for door was eva. I reversed the letters in the word. This is a change to lessen the number of words ending in A. Another change because of my definite article suffix of -A.
By the way, the word door appears about thirty times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
02 December 2011
roof is talto
talto = roof (noun) (some things Google found for "talto": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; O Poraner Talto Bhai is a Bangla song title (what it translates to, I don't know); in Hungarian tradition similar Táltos is a human being similar to a shaman; Taltos is the title of books by Steven Brust and Anne Rice; Talto-Kurgan (a.k.a. Taldykorgan) is a city in Kazakhstan; Talto is the name of places in South Korea and Guinea-Bissau) Word derivation for "roof" :
Basque = teilatu, Finnish = katto
Miresua = talto
In Basque teila means roof tile, shingle. Teilatu also means tile roof.
I like that in Spanish similar word alto means high.
30 December 2008
wall (interior) is heima
heima = wall (noun) (some things Google found for "heima": a very common term; title of a documentary chronicling Icelandic band Sigur Rós tour of Iceland in 2006; user name; a last name that can be from Japan; means "at home" in Faroese and Icelandic)Word derivation for "wall": (in buildings)
Basque = horma, Finnish = seinä
Miresua = heima
This is the Miresua word for a wall inside a building, such as in a house.
The Finnish word comes from a Baltic root, as opposed to a Latin root.
It's interesting that my word is the title of Sigur Rós DVD. I read somewhere that Sigur Rós have songs in an Icelandic conlang. Although I've heard music by Sigur Rós, I'm not that familiar with their work, so I can't confirm that.
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