spider is armahäki (revisited)

armahäki = spider (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "armahäki": an unique term; did not match any documents; similar Armahani Finnish Lapphunds is a small exhibitor and breeder of dogs in Melbourne, Australia)

Word derivation for "spider" :
Basque = armiarma, Finnish = hämähäkki
Miresua = armahäki

My previous Miresua word for spider was hämiharma. I changed it so that the word doesn't end in -A. The word for spider is long (8 letters) because both the Basque and the Finnish words for spider are long.

The word spider does not appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass.

pig is sirri (revisited)

sirri = pig (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "sirri": a common term; SIRRI is a Developmental Rehabilitation and Learning Center; SIRRI is a UK children's clothing store; a unusual last name; similar Sırrı is a unusual Turkish masculine first name; similar Sirrí is an unusual Icelandic feminine first name; Sirri wool yarn from the Faroe Islands; in Indonesia a sirri marriage is unregistered or informal; an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf; name of places in Italy and Pakistan)

Word derivation for "pig" :
Basque = txerri, Finnish = sika
Miresua = sirri

My previous word for pig was sarri. This is a small change, a tweak. My new word, sirri, seems less common than sarri.

This word is a Miresua word for a type of animal. It's a mix of the Basque and Finnish words. My definition is not in any way intended to be a comment about people or things named sirri.

The word pig appears a handful of times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."

mouse is higu (revisited)

higu = mouse (noun) (Some things Google found for "higu": an uncommon term; user names; Higu's Jump Training is an online rhythm game on osu!; Higu Bagel and Cafe in Tokyo, Japan; Higu Constructions Pty Ltd of New South Wales, Australia; a rare last name; similar Higua is the name of a place in the Dominican Republic)

Word derivation for "mouse" :
Basque = sagu, Finnish = hiiri
Miresua = higu

My previous Miresua word for mouse was sigi. That word was an alphabetic scramble.

The word mouse occurs a numerous of times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Would it be of any use, now," thought Alice, "to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying." So she began: "O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!"

bull is sozen

sozen = bull (animal) (noun) (Some things Google found for "sozen": an uncommon term; Sozen is a Chinese creative furniture design company using woven bamboo; Sözen brand Turkish Coffee Grinders; Sozen (and Sözen) is an unusual last name that can be Turkish; Mete Sozen is a Professor of Structural Engineering at Purdue University; Melisa Sözen is a Turkish actress; a rare first name; SoZen is a product by equine feed company Cavalor which has a calming effect on nervous horses; Sozen Pty Ltd is a property development and construction company in Queensland, Australia)

Word derivation for "bull" :
Basque = zezen, Finnish = sonni
Miresua = sozen

This is a brand new word, not a revision.

The word bull does not appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-Glass.

goat is vuhutz (revisited)

vuhutz = goat (noun) (Some things Google found for "vuhutz": a rare term; user names; a gaming character name; occurs on a number of Chinese webpages; somewhat similar Hutz is an unusual last name)

Word derivation for "goat":
Basque = ahuntz, Finnish = vuohi
Miresua = vuhutz

My previous Miresua word for goat was hauvo, which was an alphabetic scramble. This new word better resembles both the Basque word and the Finnish word.

The word goat doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs three times in Through the Looking-Glass. Alice encounters a number of talking animals in Through the Looking-Glass.

A Goat, that was sitting next to the gentleman in white, shut his eyes and said in a loud voice, "She ought to know her way to the ticket-office, even if she doesn't know her alphabet!"

lion is leijo (revisited)

leijo = lion (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "leijo": an unusual to uncommon term; a rare last name that can be Finnish or can be Hispanic; a rare first name; user names; name of a NPC collector character in GuildWars; Leijo is a bathroom supply store in Pontevedra, Spain; similar Leija is the name of a place in Mexico)

Word derivation for "lion" :
Basque = lehoi, Finnish = leijona
Miresua = leijo

My previous Miresua word for lion was lehoni. I redid this word, made it shorter and used the J to make it different. Note J in Miresua is pronounced like Y. A better mix of the Basque and the Finnish words would have been leiho, but leiho means window in Basque.

The word lion does not occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs nearly twenty times in Through the Looking-Glass. This quote is an old song or nursery rhyme which Alice repeats to herself. It was not written by Lewis Carroll, it's older.

"The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown:
The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town.
Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them out of town."

sheep is ladis (revisited)

ladis = sheep (noun) (Some things Google found for "ladis": a common term; an unusual to uncommon unisex first name; unusual last name; LADIS is an acronym for Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware which is professional workshop conference; Dimensional Demonic Dragon, Ladis the Tyrant is a monster card in Future Card BuddyFight card game; LADIS is an acronym for Legislation and Development Information Systems which is an Egyptian IT solutions company; name of a place in Tyrol, Austria)

Word derivation for "sheep" :
Basque = ardi, Finnish = lammas
Miresua = ladis

Earlier this month I posted aras as my Miresua word for sheep. Somehow that just didn't seem to be the right mix of letters. So I've redone the word for sheep, again.

The word sheep occurs once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, I quoted that earlier this month. In Through the Looking-glass the word sheep appears around twenty times.

Alice rubbed her eyes, and looked again. She couldn't make out what had happened at all. Was she in a shop? And was that really -- was it really a SHEEP that was sitting on the other side of the counter?

cow is lehi (revisited)

lehi = cow (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "lehi": a common term; Lehi is a prophet from the Book of Mormon; Lehi was a 1940s Jewish/Zionist militant group; Lehi or Ramath Lehi was a biblical place in Judah where Samson killed a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey; an unusual masculine first name; an unusual to last name; name of a community in Arizona; name of a city in Utah; name of places in Arkansas and Indonesia)

Word derivation for "cow" :
Basque = behi, Finnish = lehmä
Miresua = lehi

My previous Miresua word for cow was behmä. This change is so the word doesn't end in -Ä. It also simplifies the word.

This is merely a word in my conlang language, constructed as a combination of the Basque and Finnish words. It's not, in any way, intended to be a comment about or a reference to anyone or anything named Lehi.

The word cow doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass.

rabbit is unki (revisited)

unki = rabbit (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "unki": an uncommon term; Unki mine in Zimbabwe notably produces platinum; a word appearing in Hindi song titles such as "Yeh Dil Aur Unki, Nigaaho Ke Saaye"; an unusual last name; an unusual to rare first name; in Hindi when transliterated unki seems to mean their; name of a place in Zimbabwe)

Word derivation for "rabbit":
Basque = untxi, Finnish = kani
Miresua = unki

My previous Miresua conlang word for rabbit was anuki. I revised this word to start with U, like the Basque word, and also shortened the word.

The word rabbit appears many times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

bird is txitu (revisited)

txitu = bird (noun) (Some things Google found for "txitu": a unusual term; user names; similar txistu is a Basque fipple flute (end-blown flute) with three-holes; txitu‑ò appears in a New Testament translation in Karajá which is an indigenous language of central Brazil; similar Chitu is the name of a horse that raced in the 2014 Kentucky Derby)

Word derivation for "bird" :
Basque = txori, Finnish = lintu
Miresua = txitu

My previous Miresua word for bird was tirlu, which was an odd alphabetic scramble I constructed back in 2009. For my new word, I thought I'd let my word for bird start with TX. In Miresua, as in Basque, TX is pronounced like CH.

The word bird, plus birds, occurs a dozen times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Very true," said the Duchess: "flamingoes and mustard both bite. And the moral of that is -- 'Birds of a feather flock together.'"

"Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked.

dog is kotxar (revisited)

kotxar = dog (animal) (noun) (Some things Google found for "kotxar": a rare term; user names; kotxar.ru was a former sports review website; bad OCR of old text documents; similar Kotzar is an unusual last name; in Basque similar kotxe means car, auto)

Word derivation for "dog":
Basque = txakur, Finnish = koira
Miresua = kotxar

My previous Miresua word for dog was txora, which I posted way back in 2008. I'm changing this word so that it no longer ends in -A, and also because the new word is, in my opinion, a slightly better mix. In Miresua, as in Basque, TX is pronounced like CH.

The word dog, plus dogs, occurs six times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

"Are you--are you fond--of--of dogs?" The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier..."

creature is izolo

izolo = creature (noun) (some things Google found for "izolo": an uncommon term; in Zulu and Xhosa izolo means yesterday; Izolo (A Trip Into the Past) is a South African music album by Children of Nandi; name of a World of Warcraft character; similar Izolô Acessórios of Brazil sells jewelry and watches; iZolo Ltd of the UK is an app developer; a very rare first name and last name; user names; similar Izola is the name of a place in Slovenia)

Word derivation for "creature" :
Basque = izaki, Finnish = olento
Miresua = izolo

The words creature and creatures appear over a dozen times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. "If it had grown up," she said to herself, "it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think."

lobster is otumari

otumari = lobster (noun) (some things Google found for "otumari": a rare term; user names; similar Otomari Honey is a mature Japanese manga; similar Ōtomari is a Kiev based fuzz pop band; similar Otumara is the name of places in Nigeria; similar Ōtomari is the name of places in Japan)

Word derivation for "lobster"
Basque = otarrain, Finnish = hummeri
Miresua = otumari

Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is The Lobster Quadrille. The Mock Turtle and the Gryphon tell Alice about this dance with lobsters, and sing a song.

lizard is lisker

lisker = lizard (noun) (some things Google found for "lisker": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; Leigh Lisker was an American linguist and phonetician; Bruce Lisker is a California man whose conviction for murder was overturned; a Zoanoid character in science fiction movie The Guyver (1991); name of a Basque progressive rock or folk rock band of the 70s; Lisker Congregation is a NYC Jewish Orthodox synagogue; Lisker's sign is tenderness to percussion of the medial surface of the tibia which suggests deep venous thrombosis)

Word derivation for "lizard"
Basque = musker, Finnish = lisko
Miresua = lisker

Another Finnish word for lizard is sisilisko.

Bill the Lizard is a character appearing in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

hedgehog is sirti

sirti = hedgehog (noun) (some things Google found for "sirti": an uncommon term; Sirti SpA is an Italian civil engineering and network technology company; SIRTI was the acronym for Spokane Intercollegiate Research and Technology Institute which is now Innovate Washington; a rare last name; Biçak sirti is a Turkish TV series drama; similar Sirt'i is the name of a place in Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "hedgehog"
Basque = triku, Finnish = siili
Miresua = sirti

In Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, hedgehogs are used as balls at the Queen's croquet ground.

frog is samagel

samagel = frog (noun) (some things Google found for "samagel": a rare to unusual term; Samagel Manutenção Industrial Ltda ME (Industrial Maintenance) of Mogi Guaçu, Brazil; Samagel Santo André Máquinas e Geladeiras Ltda (Machines and Refrigerators) of Santo André, Brazil; a very rare last name; a very rare first name; user names; Samagel brand fresh oriental vegetables from DetPon Corporation of Guatemala; similar Samage is the name of a place in Papua New Guinea)

Word derivation for "frog"
Basque = igel, Finnish = sammakko
Miresua = samagel

As I've been making words for various creatures lately, there is a Frog-Footman in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

dormouse is ukixar

ukixar = dormouse (noun) (some things Google found for "ukixar": a rare term; bad OCR of old texts; appears on gobbledygook pages; similar Ukixa Corporation (UKX) is an oil and gas corporation in the Republic of Shaelia on the fictional world of Atoria)

Word derivation for "dormouse"
Basque = muxar, Finnish = unikeko
Miresua = ukixar

In Finnish, another word for dormouse (specifically the Hazel dormouse) is pähkinähiiri, where hiiri means mouse.

The Dormouse is a character at the Mad Tea-Party in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. At the end of the scene, the March Hare and the Hatter try to put the Dormouse into a teapot.

hare is järbi

järbi = hare (noun) (some things Google found for "jarbi": an uncommon term; a rare masculine first name; Belizean pro soccer player Jarbi Álvarez; a rare last name; JARBI is an acronym for Journal of Applied Research for Business Instruction; Hasy Jarbi (aka Hassi Jerbi) is the name of a place in Tunisia)

Word derivation for "hare"
Basque = erbi, Finnish = jänis
Miresua = järbi

The March Hare appears in the tea party scene of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. By the way, I don't have a word yet for March.

Apologies for my lack of anything resembling grammar lately. This summer has been very busy for me.

turtle is dirkona

dirkona = turtle (noun) (some things Google found for "dirkona": a rare term; similar Dirkon (sometimes referred to in Czech and in Polish as Dirkona) is paper pinhole camera that was first published as a kit in a 1979 Czechoslovakian magazine; a very rare last name; similar Dhirkona is a village in West Bengal, India)

Word derivation for "turtle"
Basque = dortoka, Finnish = kilpikonna
Miresua = dirkona

The Mock Turtle is a character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

butterfly is pehinexa

pehinexa = butterfly (noun) (some things Google found for "pehinexa": an unique term; similar pexinxa occurs on a number of Brazilian bargain websites and may be a form of the Portuguese word pechincha which means bargain)

Word derivation for "butterfly"
Basque = tximeleta AND pinpilinpauxa
Finnish = perhonen
Miresua = pehinexa

Basque has multiple words for butterfly, perhaps they are from different dialects. I choose the two that seemed most common.

The word butterfly occurs just once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice tells the Caterpillar that some day he'll change into a butterfly.