month is kuilake

kuilake = month (noun) (some things Google found for "kuilake": a very rare term; user name of someone in Norway; a blood elf warlock in character in World of Warcraft)

Word derivation for "month":
Basque = hilabete, Finnish = kuukausi
Miresua = kuilake

The Finnish word for "month" is a combination of the words for "moon" and "season, term". The Basque word for "month" appears to be a combination of "moon" and "to fufill, to complete". My Miresua word for "month" includes my word for "moon" and a couple more letters, which may or may not be an later defined suffix.

Miresua project of the month :: color revisions

This month I'll be posting revisions of some of my words for colors. These were among the first words I created in Miresua. In the past, I've usually deleted and re-added postings when I've changed words. But colors are important terms to me, and these changes involve bending my rules.

Finnish has four lengthy words for colors, with 7 to 9 letters, which end in the suffix "-nen". Finnish uses this suffix as a way to form adjectives. For my new revised words, I'm going to ignore the "–nen" suffixes on my Finnish source words. This will allow me to shorten my Miresua words.

There will be no words for the colors orange and pink in Miresua. Finnish and Basque have only in the past century acquired all the terms for the basic eight colors -- white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, and gray -- and several words were derived from other languages. Finnish is establishing the borrowed word "violetti" for purple. The words for orange and pink are very recent, very obvious, loan words in both Finnish and Basque.

Miresua project of the month :: to be (part 2)

Miresua has two verbs "to be", like Basque, one which means "to exist" and the other means "to stay". Usage will be as with the Spanish verbs "ser" and "estar". Finnish (like English) has one verb "to be".

This month I'll be mixing conjugations of the Basque verb "egon" (to stay) with conjugations of the Finnish verb "olla".

Miresua project of the month :: to be

This month I'm going to create some words for the common verb "to be" in Miresua for the present tense.

Finnish (like English) has one verb "to be", but Basque has two verbs -- one which means "to exist" and the other means "to stay", like the Spanish verbs "ser" and "estar". Earlier I thought I'd use one verb "to be" in Miresua to simplify things. Upon further thought, there will be two verbs.

This month I'll be mixing conjugations of the Basque verb "izan" (to exist) with conjugations of the Finnish verb "olla". The Basque and Finnish languages handle verbs quite differently. Be warned, things are going to get messy.