Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts

10 August 2015

rug is albato

albato = rug (noun) (Some things Google found for "albato": an unusual term; Invercote Albato is a product name of bleached board for packaging; Albato Healthy Life; a rare first name; a rare last name; user names; conjugations of the Latin verb albo to make white; similar Albate is the name of a place in northern Italy)

Word derivation for "rug" :
Basque = alfonbra, Finnish = matto
Miresua = albato

This is a new word. Surprisingly, there's an F in the Basque word, but Miresua doesn't not use F. Under my rules, I could of changed that F to a V, but I didn't.

The word rug doesn't really appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although it appears four times in Through the Looking-Glass.
...as she settled comfortably down, with one elbow in the rug, and her chin in her hand, to watch the kittens.

18 February 2015

desk is kirtazpöhai

kirtazpöhai = desk (noun) (some things Google found for "kirtazpohai": an unique term, did not match any documents, which is hardly unexpected because it's a huge, eleven-letter compound word)

Word derivation for "desk":
Basque = idazmahai (seems to be a form of write + table)
Finnish = kirjoituspöytä (writing + table)
Miresua = kirtazpöhai (writing? + table)

I found two instances of the word desk, actually writing-desk, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
"You should learn not to make personal remarks," Alice said with some severity; "it's very rude."

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he SAID was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"

14 February 2015

table is pöhai (revisited)

pöhai = table (noun) (some things Google found for "pohai"; an uncommon term; Pohai Nani is the name of a retirement community in Oahu, Hawaii; Pohai Kealoha is the title of a Hawaiian song; a rare to unusual first name; a rare last name; in Hawaiian similar pohai means circle or group, as of people or trees; Pohai is a variant name for Bohai which is a gulf or sea on the coast of northeast China)

Word derivation for "table":
Basque = mahai, Finnish = pöytä
Miresua = pöhai

My previous Miresua word for table was paimö. I think this new word is less of an alphabetic scramble.

I found sixteen occurrences of the word table, an item of furniture, 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...

10 February 2015

chair is uolki

uolki = chair (noun) (some things Google found for "uolki": a rare term; user names; a very rare last name; uolki tolki is (or was) a brand of walkie talkie or two way radio from Midland; bad OCR of scanned old texts; similar Uoli is the name of a place in South Sudan)

Word derivation for "chair" :
Basque = aulki, Finnish = tuoli
Miresua = uolki

I found one instance of the word chair in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is from Chapter 7 - A Mad Tea-Party.
"No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's PLENTY of room!" said Alice indignantly, and she sat down in a large arm-chair at one end of the table.

18 November 2008

bed is dohe

dohedohe = bed (noun) (some things Google found for "dohe": an uncommon term: dohe are an old form of rhyming Hindi poetry; a last name; Dohe Mutreban and Dohe Qadzi are places in Afganistan)

Word derivation for "bed":
Basque = ohe, Finnish = vuode
Miresua = dohe

I decided to start this word with "d", because not many Miresua conlang words do. Only foreign terms in Finnish start with the letter "d".

Humorously, this word is similar to the annoyed grunt of animated character Homer Simpson who says "D'oh!".