miresua conlang: flowers

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02 September 2013

rose is ruosa

ruosa = rose (noun) (some things Google found for "ruosa": an uncommon term; a rare last name; World of Warcraft gaming character name; RUOSA brand or ID of lighting fixtures; a rare first name; user names; means rose in Dalmatian; similar ruoša means "preparation, stocking up" in Lithuanian; similar ruoska means whip (noun) in Finnish)

Word derivation for "rose"
Basque = arrosa, Finnish = ruusu
Miresua = ruosa

In chapter 8 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Alice sees three of the Queen of Hearts' gardeners painting white roses red.

02 March 2013

daisy is pitxä

pitxä = daisy (noun) (some things Google found for "pitxa": an uncommon to rare term; user names; La pitxa is a pizza place in Caracas, Venezuela; similar pitxer means jar, pitcher, jug in Basque; pitxa may mean vase or jug in Catalan)

Word derivation for "daisy" :
Basque = bitxilore (bitxi (jewel, pretty) + lore (flower))
Finnish = päivänkakkara (päivän (day's) + kakkara (chrysanthemum))

The Finnish word for daisy has thirteen letters, and the Basque word has nine letters!? Oh, my. I don't particularly want a word for daisy with a minimum of eight letters! This is my conlang, so I'm bending the rules.

Both the Basque and Finnish words are compound words. As the last part of both words means flower, or a type of flower, I'm going to simply ignore that part. I don't see how I could make a Miresua compound word. So, I only mixed the first parts of the words.

*Amended* word derivation for "daisy" :
Basque = bitxi, Finnish = päivän
Miresua = pitxä

I considered making this word pätxi, but changed my mind when I learned that Patxi is the Basque form of the masculine first name Francis or Francisco.

This is a word from paragraph two of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Alice was considering making a daisy-chain.

06 February 2007

flower is loku

loku = flower (noun) (some things Google found for "loku": an uncommon term; title of an online collection of really bad haiku; user names; "Eya Dan Loku Lamayek" is a 1975 movie from Sri Lanka; "Ka Ua Loku" is a Hawaiian song title; a last and first name from Sri Lanka; means "tall" in Sinhala (transliterated); "Loku and the Shark Attack" is a young adult book about a boy living in Papua New Guinea; a place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Word derivation for "flower" :
Basque = lore, Finnish = kukka
Miresua = loku

About Miresua

Miresua is an imaginary language.

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).