cloth is ongal (revisited)

ongal = cloth (noun) (Some things Google found for "ongal": an unusual to uncommon term; The Battle of Ongal took place in 680 in around the Danube delta in present-day Romania between Bulgars and the Byzantine Empire; historical Ongal area; Ongal Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica; Ongal Museum in Balgarevo, Bulgaria; a rare last name; similar Ongala is the name of a place in Namibia)

Word derivation for "cloth" :
Basque = oihal, Finnish = kangas
Miresua = ongal

My previous Miresua conlang word for cloth was kosal. I'm changing this word to start with O, which is much more uncommon than starting with K. Also it makes my Miresua word for cloth not look like my word for rope.

The word cloth doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although it appears twice, as table-cloth, in Through the Looking-Glass.

"I can't stand this any longer!" she cried as she jumped up and seized the table-cloth with both hands: one good pull, and plates, dishes, guests, and candles came crashing down together in a heap on the floor.

sand is hiedar (revisited)

hiedar = sand (noun) (some things Google found for "hiedar": an uncommon term; a rare last name; a rare first name; user names; gaming character names; Al Hiedar is an employment recruiting company in Egypt; similar "Heidar, Rimewind Master" is the name of a card in Magic: The Gathering)

Word derivation for "sand" :
Basque = hondar, Finnish = hiekka
Miresua = hiedar

Another Basque word for sand is harea.

My previous Miresua conlang word for sand was heida. I'm making this word no longer end in -A, six-letters in length, and allowing the IE vowel combination from the Finnish word.

I did find the word sand in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades....

earth is mur (revisited)

mur = earth (land, soil) (noun) (some things Google found for "mur": a very common term; MUR is the NYSE stock symbol for Murphy Oil Corporation; an unusual last name; an unusual first name, notably author Mur Lafferty; MUR is a currency acronym for the Mauritian Rupee; MUR is an acronym for Matter Under Review; in the UK MUR is an acronym for Medicine Use Review; means wall in French; mur means blackberry in Romanian; Mur River in Central Europe; Bruck an der Mur is a place in Austria; Mur-de-Bretagne and Mur-de-Sologne are places in France; name of places in Serbia and Iran)

Word derivation for "earth (land, soil)":
Basque = lur, Finnish = maa
Miresua = mur

My previous Miresua conlang word for earth was mura. This is a small change to reduce the number of nouns ending in -A. As a bonus, the new word is a 3-letter word, same as the Basque and the Finnish words.

The word earth doesn't occur, but the word land does, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. This quote is from Chapter 10: The Lobster Quadrille.

"Turn a somersault in the sea!" cried the Mock Turtle, capering wildly about.

"Change lobsters again!" yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice.

"Back to land again, and that's all the first figure," said the Mock Turtle..."

silk is setki (revisited)

setki = silk (noun) (some things Google found for "setki": a common term; setki means hundreds (numeral) in Polish, an overwhelming result; a rare first name; a rare last name; Malyye Setki is the name of a place in Russia; name of places in Poland (aka Sętki) and Russia)

Word derivation for "silk":
Basque = zeta, Finnish = silkki
Miresua = setki

My previous Miresua conlang word for silk was ziska. This is part of my ongoing series of revisions to lessen, but not eliminate, the number of nouns ending in -A, for grammar reasons.

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

leather is narku (revisited)

narku = leather (noun) (some things Google found for "narku": an uncommon term; a rare first name and a rare last name, notably Nii Narku Quaynor from Ghana known for his role in development of the Internet in Africa; name of a World of Warcraft character; similar Narkû is the name of an uruk type of orc creature in Lord of the Rings Online; similar naraku means hell (Buddhism) in Japanese romaji; name of places in Nepal and Iran)

Word derivation for "leather" :
Basque = larru, Finnish = nahka
Miresua = narku

My previous Miresua conlang word for leather was narra. I'm changing this word so that it doesn't end in -A.

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

metal is meital

meital = metal (noun) (some things Google found for "meital": an uncommon term; an unusual to uncommon Hebrew feminine first name, notably Israeli actress and musical artist Meital Dohan; an unusual to rare last name)

Word derivation for "metal" :
Basque = metal, Finnish = metalli
Miresua = meital

This is a word that I didn't have much to work with, so I got a little creative.

This should have been posted on the 18th. I lost track of the date. Instead of retroactively manipulating the post's date, I'm publishing this on the next even numbered day.

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

salt is suotz (revisited)

suotz = salt (noun) (some things Google found for "suotz": an unusual to rare term; a very rare last name; user names; bad OCR of old texts; similar Swotz is a rare last name)

Word derivation for "salt" :
Basque = gatz, Finnish = suola
Miresua = suotz

My previous Miresua conlang word for salt was was suatz. I'm changing this word to use the Finnish vowel combination UO, and also because I don't think UA should be a valid vowel combination for the middle of a word, although nouns ending in -U can end in -UA when combined with the definite article suffix -A. Dang, I guess this makes my conlang language really MIRESU!

The word salt occurs in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland twice. This quote is from Chapter 3: A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale.

Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes.

By the way, according to Wikipedia, comfits are "confectionery consisting of dried fruits, nuts, seeds or spices coated with sugar candy".

glass is laire (revisited)

laire = glass (noun) (some things Google found for "laire": an uncommon term; LAIRE is an acronym for Live Action Interactive Roleplaying Explorers; user names; an unusual last name; de Laire and O'Laire are rare last names; an unusual first name that can be feminine or masculine; in Old French laire means to allow; name of a town in eastern France)

Word derivation for "glass" :
Basque = beira, Finnish = lasi
Miresua = laire

My previous Miresua conlang word for glass was seila. My new word is less of an alphabetic scramble, plus does not end in a.

The word glass appears ten times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, often as an adjective, and once as a "looking-glass".

Alice "found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass..."

flint is sikiri

sikiri = flint (noun) (some things Google found for "sikiri": an uncommon term; Sikiri Computers of Belgium; a rare last name; a rare first name that can be feminine; user names; may mean "frequent" in Japanese (transliterated); name of a village in Orissa state in India; similarly named Fatehpur Sikri is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India)

Word derivation for "flint" :
Basque = sukarri, Finnish = piikivi
Miresua = sikiri

Flint is a type of rock that can be chipped into stone weapons and tools. Flint and steel can be used to spark a fire.

paper is paiper

paiper = paper (noun) (some things Google found for "paiper": an uncommon term; Paiper Clothing of the UK; Paiper of Italy sells software for coding and decoding in real time multimedia formats; a rare last name; user names; a misspelling of papier (paper in French) as in papier-mâché)

Word derivation for "paper" :
Basque = paper, Finnish = paperi
Miresua = paiper

I couldn't do much with this word; it looks like paper. I decided to not scramble up the letters. In Miresua, "the paper" will be paipera.

charcoal is pugekaili

pugekaili = charcoal (noun) (some things Google found for "pugekaili": an unique term; this is a compound Miresua word of puge (firewood) and kaili (carbon; coal))

Word derivation for "charcoal" :
Basque = egurrikatz (egur = firewood + ikatz = coal,charcoal)
Finnish = puuhiili (puu = wood + hiili = carbon,coal)
Miresua = pugekaili

The first word of this Miresua compound word, which means firewood, is singular instead of plural. In other words, puge instead of the plural, puget.

coal is havikaili

havikaili = coal (noun) (some things Google found for "havikaili": an unique term; this is a compound Miresua word of havi (stone) and kaili (carbon; coal))

Word derivation for "coal" :
Basque = harrikatz (harri = stone + ikatz = coal,charcoal)
Finnish = kivihiili (kivi = stone + hiili = carbon,coal)
Miresua = havikaili

To be precise, this is the Miresua word for bitumous coal, as opposed to anthracite coal.

Why the conlang words for coal? For one, because this conlang is used in a world that is not modern. Also because I personally know what it's like to burn coal to stay warm. I spend some time, particularly in the warmer months, at an old family house in the mountains that lacks central heating.

carbon, coal is kaili

kaili = carbon, coal (noun) (some things Google found for "kaili": a common term; a last name that can be Hawaiian, notably Greek member of Parliament and former television news presenter Eva Kaili; a feminine first name that can be a variant of Kaylee, notably American actress Kaili Thorne; song title by alternative music artist Caribou; the Kaili Formation Cambrian fossil beds of southwest China; Kaili language group of Sulawesi, Indonesia; name of cities in China, Indonesia, India and Senegal)

Word derivation for "carbon, coal":
Basque = karbono (carbon) and ikatz (coal; charcoal)
Finnish = hiili (carbon; coal)
Miresua = kaili

This Miresua conlang word notably uses two Basque source words.

firewood is puget

puget = firewood (noun) (some things Google found for "puget": a very very common term; Puget Sound is an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State and its general region - an overwhelming result; University of Puget Sound in Tacoma; a last name; 17th century French painter and sculptor Pierre Paul Puget; alternative rock guitarist Jade Puget; Peter Puget was an officer in the British Royal Navy best known for his exploration of Puget Sound; Puget, Puget-Ville, Puget-Theniers and Puget-sur-Argens are places in France)

Word derivation for "firewood":
Basque = egur,
Finnish = polttopuut (poltto = burning + puut = wood)
Miresua = puget

Unlike the Finnish word, this is not a compound word. But like the Finnish word it has the plural form with the suffix of -t, implying more than one piece of firewood.

By the way, the Miresua conlang word for wood is pur (from the Basque word zur and the Finnish word puu).

Note that the Miresua pronunciation of puget is not like in Puget Sound. In Mireusa u is pronounced similar to the oo in food.

stone is havi (revisited)

havi = stone (noun) (some things Google found for "havi": a very common term; HAVI Global Solutions is an international supply chain managed services company; HAVi is an acronym for Home Audio Video Interoperability; a rare feminine first name that can be Hebrew; a rare last name; means to have in Esperanto; means monthly in Hungarian; name of cities in Ghana and Iran)

Word derivation for "stone" :
Basque = harri, Finnish = kivi
Miresua = havi

My previous Miresua conlang word for stone was kari, which actually means sunken rock or rocks in Finnish. This is a change I've been pondering for a while. The new word, havi, is somewhat similar to the word heavy, and stones can be heavy.

bone is lezu (revisited)

lezu = bone (noun) (some things Google found for "lezu": an uncommon term; a last name; Lezu (or L'ezu) Atelier shops sell couture wedding gowns; means "language" in Armenian (transliterated); name of a city in Burma)

Word derivation for "bone" :
Basque = hezur, Finnish = luu
Miresua = lezu

My previous Miresua word for "bone" was "leru". I'm changing this word because I think that I overused the letter r in words for materials. My Miresua conlang words for bone, earth, stone, and wood looked too similar.

linen is pelari (revisited)

pelari = linen (noun) (some things Google found for "pelari": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; Pelari Hair is a hairdresser in Walsall in the UK; maybe a first name; means "runner, sprinter" in Indonesian; means "runner" in Malay; name of a city in Afghanistan)

Word derivation for "linen" (flax):
Basque = hari, Finnish = pellava
Miresua = pelari

My previous Miresua conlang word for "linen" was "avari". There was nothing wrong with that word. But as I changed my word for wool to avile, I thought that I'd better change this word for linen so it wouldn't be so similar to word for wool.

wool is avile (revisited)

avile = wool (noun) (some things Google found for "avile": an uncommon term; a last name; an unusual first name; archaic Etruscan funeral stele of Avile Tite; in obsolete English "avile" means "to abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate")

Word derivation for "wool":
Basque = artile, Finnish = villa
Miresua = avile

My previous word for "wool" was "lirla". I redid this word.

ash is hutka (revisited)

hutka = ash (noun) (some things Google found for "hutka": an uncommon term; a last name; Hutka is the name of cities in Poland and Slovakia)

Word derivation for "ash" :
Basque = hauts, Finnish = tuhka
Miresua = hutka

My previous word for "ash" was "sukha". I think that "hutka" is a better mix of the Basque and Finnish words.

grass is rohar

rohar = grass (noun) (some things Google found for "rohar": an uncommon term; a last name; Rohar's Roughnecks is a Guild Wars guild; user names; Rohar Trucking of Illinois; RoHar is an antigen; Phumi Rohar is a town in Cambodia)

Word derivation for "grass" :
Basque = belar, Finnish = ruoho
Miresua = rohar