orange (fruit) is laperni (revisited)

laperni = orange (noun) (some things Google found for "laperni": an unusual term; a rare to unusual last name that can be Italian; user names; similar perni means pivots in Italian; similar Lapeni is the name of places in Latvia and Belarus)

Word derivation for "orange (fruit)" :
Basque = laranja, Finnish = appelsiini
Miresua = laperni

My previous word for orange (fruit), from only a few months ago, was laperani. I'm tweaking this word, slightly simplifying it. A rather small change.

The Basque word for orange, laranja, is the same as the Portuguese. The Finnish word for orange is apparently derived from Old Swedish appelsin, meaning "Chinese apple".

The word orange appears one time in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, when Alice falls down the rabbit-hole.

She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled 'ORANGE MARMALADE'...

fruit is heditu

heditu = fruit (noun) (some things Google found for "heditu": a rare term; a very rare first name; heditu.com is a web domain registered with a Chinese registrar; bad text OCR of reditu which means return in Latin)

Word derivation for "fruit" :
Basque = fruitu, Finnish = hedelmä
Miresua = heditu

This is a new word. By the way, the letter F isn't used in Miresua.

I found the word fruit in Through the Looking-glass in this quote.

"First you take an upright stick," said the Knight. "Then you make your hair creep up it, like a fruit-tree. Now the reason hair falls off is because it hangs DOWN -- things never fall UPWARDS, you know...."

lemon is limuno (revisited)

limuno = lemon (noun) (some things Google found for "limuno": an unusual to uncommon term; a rare last name; a very rare first name; user names; similar Limundo.com is a Serbian online auction website; name of a place in Zamboanga Del Sur in the Philippines)

Word derivation for "lemon" :
Basque = limoi, Finnish = sitruuna
Miresua = limuno

My previous word for lemon was limuna. This is a small change so that the word doesn't end in -A. I'm taking the opportunity to end this word in -O.

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

apple is sagen (revisited)

sagen = apple (noun) (some things Google found for "sagen": a very common term; an unusual to uncommon last name; Deutsche Sagen (German Legends) (1816, 1818) is a collection by The Brothers Grimm; Sagen Group Property Management of the Greater Seattle area; a rare to unusual first name; Sagen Hunting Products; in German sagen means to say, to tell; in Dutch sagen means sagas; in Danish sagen means case, matter; similar Sågen is in Haninge Municipality in Sweden; name of places in Switzerland and Norway)

Word derivation for "apple" :
Basque = sagar, Finnish = omena
Miresua = sagen

My previous Miresua conlang word for apple was sagena. I'm changing this word as part of my ongoing effort to lessen the words ending in -A. The Basque word ends in a consonant, so the Miresua word can too. In Miresua, as in Basque, the definite article, the, will be a suffix of -A. So, in other words, "an apple" will be sagen, and "the apple" will be sagena. That makes this a very small change.

The word apples (plural) occurs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland twice in Chapter 4 : The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill.

Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--"Pat! Pat! Where are you?" And then a voice she had never heard before, "Sure then I'm here! Digging for apples, yer honour!"

"Digging for apples, indeed!" said the Rabbit angrily.

strawberry is manarbi (revisited)

manarbi = strawberry (noun) (some things Google found for "manarbi": a rare term; possibly a rare first name; possibly a rare last name; user name; appears in bad OCR of old documents)

Word derivation for "strawberry" :
Basque = marrubi, Finnish = mansikka
Miresua = manarbi

My previous Miresua word for strawberry was marniba. The new word doesn't end in A. Posting another small change because things have been a bit hectic here.

plum is arlu

arlu = plum (noun) (some things Google found for "arlu": a uncommon term; an unusual first name that can be masculine and can be Filipino; Arlu (or Arlù) is a restaurant in Rome; Arlu Designs sells jewelry on Etsy; Hidráulica Arlu S.L. (Arlu Hydraulics, Ltd.) of Basque Country in Spain; Chez Arlu Dance Hall in Quebec near Ottawa; Arlu's Cleaners in Scottsdale, Arizona; name of a mythological goddess in fantasy world Glorantha; a rare last name)

Word derivation for "plum" :
Basque = aran, Finnish = luumu
Miresua = arlu

There's three Us in the Finnish word, and two As in the Basque word.

berry is barja

barja = berry (noun) (some things Google found for "barja": a common term; name of a coastal town in Lebanon; an uncommon last name; Pension Barja is a hotel in Madrid, Spain; Barja Medical equipment of Florida; name of places in the Galicia region of Spain)

Word derivation for "berry" :
Basque = baia, Finnish = marja
Miresua = barja

In Finland they eat berries such as the blueberry, bilberry (aka whortleberry), ligonberry (aka cowberry) and cloudberry. If there are words for these berries in Basque, I didn't find them. So this is a generic word for berry.

The Basque word for berry, baia, likely is derived from Spanish. Berry in Spanish is baya.

raspberry is valmudi

valmudi = raspberry (noun) (some things Google found for "valmudi": a very rare term; user names; a rare last name; similar Valmuni is a rare last name that can be from India; in Finnish similar word valmis means ready)

Word derivation for "raspberry" :
Basque = mugudi, Finnish = vadelma
Miresua = valmudi

I don't know when I'll actually use this Miresua word, but I like raspberries. We grow raspberries in the garden.

pear is pädarä

pädarä = pear (noun) (some things Google found for "padara" and "pädara": a common term; Padara is an unusual last name; Pädara is a rare last name; Padara Padara is the title of a Telugu song from India; DJ Padara; Padara is a rare first name that can be from India; padara means makes in Latvian; similar word padaria means bakery in Portuguese; Padara is the name of a place in Sudan)

Word derivation for "pear" :
Basque = madari and udare
Finnish = päärynä
Miresua = pädarä

Evidently Basque has two valid words for pear. Both Basque words contain "dar", so I used those letters when making my Miresua word. I decided to make the final letter ä (a umlaut), because the Finnish word contains three of them.

grape is virymas

virymas = grape (noun) (some things Google found for "virymas": a very rare term; a webpage name; a similar word virimas means "cooking, boil" in Lithuanian)

Word derivation for "grape" :
Basque = mahats
Finnish = viinirypäle (viini = wine, rypäle = cluster)
Miresua = virymas

This is a nearly unique word. Unlike the Finnish word, the Miresua word is not a compound word. My Miresua word for wine is vari.

peach is mersika

mersika = peach (noun) (some things Google found for "mersika": a rare term; user names; a rare last name; interior designs by Karin Mersika; Mersika coffee brand logo design)

Word derivation for "peach" :
Basque = mertxika, Finnish = persikka
Miresua = mersika

In this seven-letter word, there are five letters in common between the Basque and the Finnish words. I considered, but decided not to use the tx from the Basque word. Perhaps I liked this letter combination because it's somewhat similar to my name, Mariska, which is actually my middle name.

cherry is kirezi

kirezi = cherry (noun) (some things Google found for "kirezi": a uncommon term; an unusual last name that can be from Rwanda or Burundi; user names; title of a song by Big Sylla; similar word kireji is a Japanese term for a special category of words used in traditional poetry such as haiku and in hokku)

Word derivation for "cherry" :
Basque = gerezi, Finnish = kirsikka
Miresua = kirezi

The Miresua word for cherry is similar to other European words for cherry. For instance, cherry in Spanish is cereza, and cherry in German is kirsche.