cream is ermain (revisited)

ermain = cream (noun) (Some things Google found for "ermain": an uncommon term; user names; a rare usually masculine first name; a rare last name; ermain.cc is a Chinese personal website; a bad misspelling of remain; similar Germain is an uncommon last name and an uncommon usually masculine first name)

Word derivation for "cream" :
Basque = esnegain (milk + top), Finnish = kerma
Miresua = ermain

My previous word for cream was eserma. I'm redoing it so that the word doesn't end in -A.

The word cream doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but it appears once in Through the Looking-Glass.

"Crawling at your feet," said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), "you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices of Bread-and-butter, its body is a crust, and its head is a lump of sugar."

"And what does IT live on?"

"Weak tea with cream in it."

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!"

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.

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....

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!"

ink is tiste (revisited)

tiste = ink (noun) (some things Google found for "tiste": a common term; the Tiste are a fictional race of immigrants to the fantasy world of the Malazan Empire; Tiste is a Nicaraguan drink with ground corn, cocoa and sugar; user names; an unusual last name; a rare first name; means those in Slovenian; name of a town in Lower Saxony, Germany)

Word derivation for "ink" :
Basque = tinta (same as Spanish),
Finnish = muste (in Finnish musta is black)
Miresua = tiste

My previous Miresua conlang word for ink was tusta. This is another one of my changes to reduce, but not eliminate, the number of nouns ending in -A.

I found the word ink (and inkstand) in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is from Chapter 12: Alice's Evidence.

"Never!" said the Queen furiously, throwing an inkstand at the Lizard as she spoke. (The unfortunate little Bill had left off writing on his slate with one finger, as he found it made no mark; but he now hastily began again, using the ink, that was trickling down his face, as long as it lasted.)

rain is ude (revisited)

ude = rain (noun) (some things Goggle found for "ude": a very common term: UDE is an acronym for The Upper Deck Company which produces trading cards; UDE is an acronym for Unix Desktop Environment; in weapons UDE is an acronym for the color Urban Dark Earth; an unusual to uncommon last name; an unusual first name; means out in Danish; form of the Latin adjective udus which means wet, moist; in Japanese (romaji) ude means arm; Ulan-Ude is the capital of Buryatia, Russia; name of places in Nigeria and Pakistan)

Word derivation for "rain" :
Basque = euri, Finnish = sade
Miresua = ude

My previous Miresua conlang word for rain was dure, which was an alphabetic scramble. The new word is one letter shorter than the Basque and the Finnish words, but that's allowable under my rules.

This word was supposed to be posted on the 18th, but unfortunately that didn't happen. Oops.

I didn't find the word rain in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but I found it in Through the Looking-glass.

"I see you're admiring my little box." the Knight said in a friendly tone. "It's my own invention -- to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can't get in."

"But the things can get OUT," Alice gently remarked. "Do you know the lid's open?"

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.

urine is txirva

txirva = urine (noun) (some things Google found for "txivra": a very rare term; appears as bad OCR of other words in old scanned books and documents; possibly a word on an Asian forum)

Word derivation for "urine" :
Basque = txiza (urine, pee), Finnish = virtsa
Miresua = txirva

Hey, it's a liquid and a common one too. There are two other words for urine in Basque - pixa (or pix) which may be more common, and gernu which apparently is the proper medical term for urine. I used txiza because it was the more ususual word. I wanted to create a word with minimal usage around the world. I'd rather not define someone's name or their town's name as urine.

glue is loila

loila = glue (noun) (some things Google found for "loila": an uncommon term; a feminine first name; name of a restaurant in San Francisco; Loila's Garden in Sioux Falls; an unusual last name; name of cities in Guinea and Finland)

Word derivation for "glue" :
Basque = kola (cola in Spanish),
Finnish = liima
Miresua = loila

Glue is a liquid, before it dries.

oil is öljo

öljo = oil (noun) (some things Google found for "oljo": an uncommon term; oljo.de is a German top music charts website; oljo photography of Sweden; user names; an unusual last name that can be Estonian; oljo means oil in Inari Sami which is a language of Lapland)

Word derivation for "oil" :
Basque = olio, Finnish = öljy
Miresua = öljo

This word is the first word I have starting with Ö (o umlaut).

beer is olugar

olugar = 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.

honey is etaja

etaja = honey (noun) (some things Google found for "etaja": an uncommon term; Sarce na dva etaja is a song by Bulgarian Djina Stoeva; etaja.es (eTaja) is a Spanish website; user names; a rare last name; probably means something in Bulgarian but I'm not sure what due to transliteration and the Cyrillic alphabet)

Word derivation for "honey" :
Basque = ezti, Finnish = hunaja
Miresua = etaja

This is a new word. I considered making this word ezaja, but in Basque ez- is a prefix indicating negation or exclusion, like non- or un- in English.

milk is mone (revisited)

mone = 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.

water is uvi (revisited)

uvi = 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.