Showing posts with label building parts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building parts. Show all posts

22 June 2013

stairs is esparat

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.

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.

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

taltotalto = 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

heimaheima = 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.