Showing posts with label constructs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label constructs. Show all posts

10 December 2015

wall (defensive) is muresi (revisited)

muresi = wall (noun) (Some things Google found for "muresi": an unusual to uncommon term; Muresi handmade craft jewelry of Japan; a rare last name; Via Caduti Muresi is a street Muro Leccese, Italy; In Estonian palju muresi means many worries; name of places in Burundi and Albania)

Word derivation for "wall": (stone wall, defensive wall)
Basque = harresi, Finnish = muuri
Miresua = muresi

My previous Miresua conlang word for wall, stone or defensive, was a murari. Changing this word to end like the Basque word.

This is the word for a stone wall or a defensive wall, such as The Great Wall of China.

The word wall doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it can be found a handful of times in Through the Looking-Glass.
Humpty Dumpty was sitting with his legs crossed, like a Turk, on the top of a high wall -- such a narrow one that Alice quite wondered how he could keep his balance....

10 October 2015

road is tirde (revisited)

tirde = road (noun) (some things Google found for "tirde": an uncommon term; user names; a rare last name; Tirde's house is a vacation apartment rental in Liguria, Italy; name of a month in fantasy gaming campaign setting of Outcastia; perhaps a misspelling of tired; name of a village in Maharashtra, India)

Word derivation for "road" :
Basque = errepide, Finnish = tie
Miresua = tirde

My previous Miresua conlang word for road was peire, which was a alphabetic scramble that didn't much resemble the Basque word or the Finnish word.

The word road doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs a dozen times in Through the Looking-Glass.
"So much obliged!" added Tweedledee. "You like poetry?"

"Ye-es, pretty well -- SOME poetry," Alice said doubtfully. "Would you tell me which road leads out of the wood?"

06 October 2015

bridge is silbi (revisited)


silbi = bridge (noun) (Some things Google found for "silbi": an uncommon term; user names; a rare first name that can be feminine, which is may be a variation of the unusual first name Silbia; a very rare last name; in Tagalog walang silbi means useless; name of a place in Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "bridge"
Basque = zubi, Finnish = silta
Miresua = silbi

My previous Miresua word for bridge was zilba. This is another change to avoid ending a noun in -A.

The word bridge doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs three times in Through the Looking-Glass, twice in this quote.
Here the King interrupted, to prevent the quarrel going on: he was very nervous, and his voice quite quivered. "All round the town?" he said. "That's a good long way. Did you go by the old bridge, or the market-place? You get the best view by the old bridge."

02 July 2013

garden is puratza

puratza = garden (noun) (some things Google found for "puratza": a very rare term; user name; in Sardinian may mean an tool for pruning; similar Puratz is a rare last name)

Word derivation for "garden" :
Basque = baratze (and lorategi), Finnish = puutarha
Miresua = puratza

In Basque I found two words that can mean garden. The word baratze means vegetable garden and lorategi means flower garden. The Finnish word puutarha seems to a be compound word of tree + enclosure.

06 January 2013

fence is aisi (revisited)

aisi = fence (noun) (some things Google found for "aisi": a very common term; AISI is an acronym for the American Iron and Steel Institute which is an association of North American steel producers; a rare first name; a rare last name; AISI is an acronym for Alberta Initiative for School Improvement; AISI stands for African Information Society Initiative; apparently a word in Urdu (transliterated), Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi (2005) is the title of an Indian movie)

Word derivation for "fence":
Basque = hesi, Finnish = aita
Miresua = aisi

My previous Miresua conlang word for fence was eisa. The new word starts like the Finnish word and ends like the Basque word. As a bonus, the word no longer ends in A. I'm trying to lessen the number of nouns ending in A.

As a side note - aita, the Finnish word for fence, means father in Basque.

06 October 2011

tower is dorne (revisited)

dornedorne = tower (noun) (some things Google found for "dorne": a common term; a last name, notably American illustrator Albert Dorne; kingdom of Dorne in the A Song of Ice and Fire series books by George R.R. Martin; a unusual first name that can be masculine or feminine; Dorne (aka La Dorne Riviere) is a stream in the Rhône-Alpes region of France; name of a place in Belgium)

Word derivation for "tower" :
Basque = dorre, Finnish = torni
Miresua = dorne

My previous Miresua conlang word for tower was todri. This change was mainly done to start the word with D. But I also like that "the tower" becomes dornea. I considered making this word dorni, but thought that would be pronounced too much like the Finnish word torni.

22 February 2008

street is kalu

kalukalu = street (noun) (some things Google found for "kalu": an uncommon term; KALU is the Nasdaq stock symbol for Kaiser Aluminum Corp.; Kalu Rinpoche (1905-1989) was a Tibetan Buddhist master and teacher; user names, a last name which can be Nigerian; name of places in Pakistan, North Korea, India, Iran, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, and Sudan)

Word derivation for "street":
Basque = kale, Finnish = katu
Miresua = kalu

Both the Basque and Finnish words start with "ka", so I've also started my Miresua conlang word with "ka", and there's very little scrambling of letters.