Showing posts with label drinks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drinks. Show all posts

14 December 2014

cider is sidaro

sidaro = cider (noun) (some things Google found for "sidaro": a uncommon term; a balfolk musical quartet based in the Netherlands; Sidaro Golf is a mobile phone app; a rare last name; a rare first name; user names; Lexus Sidaro Candle Holder; similar sidero- is a prefix which can mean either of or related to the stars or of or related to iron)

Word derivation for "cider":
Basque = sagardo, Finnish = siideri
Miresua = sidaro

Cider is a new word, another beverage word.

The word cider doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs once in Through the Looking-glass, in a chorus of a song, part of the same song quoted earlier this month in the post for coffee:
"Then fill up the glasses with treacle and ink,
Or anything else that is pleasant to drink:
Mix sand with the cider, and wool with the wine—
And welcome Queen Alice with ninety-times-nine!"

10 December 2014

liquor is vinore

vinore = liquor (noun) (some things Google found for "vinore": a rare term; a rare last name; a rare first name; name of a World of Warcraft gaming character; Vinore Tenerife S.L. is a plumbing and electric company in the Canary Islands; similar Ok'vinore is the name of a place in Abkhazia, Georgia; similar Vinor is the name of places in the Czech Republic and Sweden)

Word derivation for "liquor (strong alcoholic drink)":
Basque = likore, Finnish = viina
Miresua = vinore

Another new word. I seem to be on the subject of beverages.

Predictably and quite understandably, the word liquor doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking-glass.

08 December 2014

tea is te

te = tea (noun) (some things Google found for "te": an uncommon term; TE Connectivity Ltd. is an electronics company; TE is the NYSE stock for TECO Energy; an uncommon last name; an unusual first name; symbol for chemical element Tellurium; a pronoun meaning you (singular) in French, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; a pronoun meaning you (plural) in Estonian and Finnish; means tea in Basque, Catalan, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, and Welsh; means warm in Irish; means the letter T in Latin, Spanish and Turkish; means the in Maori; means to and too in Dutch; first part of the name of a number of places in New Zealand; name of places in Burma and Ivory Coast)

Word derivation for "tea" :
Basque = te, Finnish = tee
Miresua = te

This is a new word. As I made the word for coffee, I thought I'd do tea, too. But there was nothing, and I mean nothing, for me to work with to work with in building this word. The Basque and Finnish words are too similar.

The word for tea was supposed to be posted on the 6th, but that didn't happen. So the 8th it is. Poor planning on my part.

The word tea occurs a handful of times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
There was a table set out under a tree in front of the house, and the March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it....

02 December 2014

coffee is kave

kave = coffee (noun) (some things Google found for "kave": a common term; KAVE (88.5 FM) is a rebroadcasting station serving Oakridge, Oregon; ROCCAT Kave XTD Stereo Gaming Headset; The Kave (Art) Gallery near Hastings, UK; an unusual last name; an unusual usually masculine first name; similar Kávé Espresso Bar in Brooklyn, New York; similar kávé means coffee in Hungarian; name of places in Montenegro, Ghana, Nigeria and Serbia)

Word derivation for "coffee" :
Basque = kafe, Finnish = kahvi
Miresua = kave

This is a new word. There was not that much to work with, because I don't use F in Miresua.

I intended to post the word for coffee on November 30, but my Internet provider was down. So unfortunately, I ended up missing that day in my posting schedule.

The word coffee doesn't occur in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it occurs once in Through the Looking-glass, in a chorus of a song:
"Then fill up the glasses as quick as you can,
And sprinkle the table with buttons and bran:
Put cats in the coffee, and mice in the tea--
And welcome Queen Alice with thirty-times-three!"

18 March 2014

wine is vido (revisited)

vido = wine (noun) (some things Google found for "vido": a common term; Vido and De Vido are unusual to uncommon last names which can be Italian; an unusual masculine first name; user names; VIDO brand Android tablets; VIDO (Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization)-InterVac is a research organization at the University of Saskatchewan; name of a small island of the Ionian Islands group of Greece; means vision, sight in Esperanto; names of places in Haiti and Portugal)

Word derivation for "wine":
Basque = ardo, Finnish = viini
Miresua = vido

My previous Miresua conlang word for wine was vari. There was nothing really wrong with that word, but I'm changing it because I'm going to make a word very similar next.

The word wine appears twice in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
"Have some wine," the March Hare said in an encouraging tone.

Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. "I don't see any wine," she remarked.

"There isn't any," said the March Hare.

10 July 2010

beer is olugar

olugarolugar = beer (noun) (some things Google found for "olugar": an uncommon to rare term; a rare last name; user names; in Portuguese "o lugar" means "the place"; Braseria O'Lugar is a restaurant in Spain)

Word derivation for "beer" :
Basque = garagardo, Finnish = olut
Miresua = olugar

This is a another new word. My current word theme is liquids.

02 July 2010

milk is mone (revisited)

monemone = milk (noun) (some things Google found for "mone": an uncommon term; a last name, notably founder of Ultimo brand lingerie Michelle Mone; In French Mone de Campbell is a species of monkeys; in Middle English mone means a moan or moon; name of cities in Indonesia, Togo, Guinea-Bissau, Burkina Faso, South Korea and Mozambique)

Word derivation for "milk" :
Basque = esne, Finnish = maito
Miresua = mone

My previous Miresua word for milk was omse, which was a rather odd word.

By the way, my word for milk in Lhaesine, my not based on any particular language conlang, is sihe.

22 August 2008

water is uvi (revisited)

uviuvi = water (noun) (some things Google found for "uvi": a common term; UVI stands for University of the Virgin Islands; UVI stands for Ultaviolet Imager; UVI stands for Ultraviolet Index; UVI Workstation stands for Universal Software Instrument which is used for computer sound production; a feminine first name; a last name)

Word derivation for "water" :
Basque = ur, Finnish = vesi
Miresua = uvi

I read someone say that conlangs should try to keep it simple. That's making more sense to me. After some consideration, I've revised my Miresua word for "water" to "uvi". Previously my word for "water" was "ivru". As a bonus, my new word is exactly the average length of the Basque and Finnish words.