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.

steel is azterä (revisited)

azterä = steel (metal alloy) (noun) (some things Google found for "aztera": an uncommon to rare term; Aztera LLC is a technology company in product development in Tucson, Arizona; Aztera Marketing of New Zealand; a rare last name; user names; name of a World of Warcraft character)

Word derivation for "steel":
Basque = altzairu, Finnish = teräs
Miresua = azterä

My previous Miresua word for steel was azteri. This is a small change, a tweak.

brass is mestoi (revisited)

mestoi = brass (metal alloy) (noun) (some things Google found for "mestoi": an uncommon term; rap MP3 song "Hyvii Mestoi" by Antenni who seem to be Finnish even though the title doesn’t quite translate; similar mesta is Finnish slang for a place or joint; user names; a misspelling, perhaps deliberately, of Spanish "me estoy" which means "I'm"; seems to mean full in Greek (transliterated); similar mesto means city in Slovak)

Word derivation for "brass" :
Basque = letoi, Finnish = messinki
Miresua = mestoi

My previous Miresua word for brass was melitsi, which was rather an odd word.

copper is kopri (revisited)

kopri = copper (metal) (noun) (some things Google found for "kopri": a common term; an unusual last name; KOPRI is an acronym for Korean Polar Research Institute; Hip-Hop/Rap artist KOPRI; Croatian musician Dean Kopri; In the New Jedi Order era in the Star Wars universe name of a female Twi'lek; Kopri Signs and Graphics LLC; name of a primarily residential Colony in India)

Word derivation for "copper" :
Basque = kobre, Finnish = kupari
Miresua = kopri

My previous Miresua word for copper was kepra. For that word, I really mixed up the vowels. My new word starts like the Basque word, and ends like the Finnish word.

iron is raduna (revisited)

raduna = iron (metal) (some things Google found for "raduna": an uncommon term; a rare last name; user names; conjugations of the Italian verb radunare meaning to gather or to assemble; means something in Sinhalese; name of places in Croatia and Nigeria)

Word derivation for "iron" (metal):
Basque = burdina, Finnish = rauta,
Miresua = raduna

My previous Miresua conlang word for iron was daurna. That word, somehow, didn't work for me, didn't look right, so I made a new mix of letters. Words starting in R are unusual, too.

tin is itanu (revisited)

itanu = tin (metal) (noun) (some things Google found for "itanu"; an uncommon term; Itanu Toronto is a Jewish inclusion initiative for people with disabilities and their families; user names; ITANU Mobile Airbrush Tanning of North Carolina; Mirong’itanu means fifty in Kirundi which is a language of Burundi; mirongo itanu means fifty in Kinyarwanda which is a language of Rwanda)

Word derivation for "tin" (metal):
Basque = eztainu, Finnish = tina
Miresua = itanu

My previous Miresua word for tin was iltenu.

I'm changing this word because I'm using tina, instead of pelti, for the Finnish word. Pelti can mean tin in Finnish, but it also means sheet metal, tin plate. Tina can also means pewter, a tin alloy.

gold is kure (revisited)

kure = gold (metal) (some things Google found for "kure": an common term; a last name; user names; KURE is a student FM radio station in Ames, Iowa; Kure (pronounced koo-Re) is a seaport city in Hiroshima prefecture in Japan; Kure Atoll in the remote northwestern Hawaiian Islands; Kure Beach (pronounced cure-ee) is a town in North Carolina; Küre is a town and district in the Black Sea region of Turkey; means "curate" in Breton; means "blind" in Kurdish (transliterated); the name of multiple cities in Nigeria and Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "gold" :
Basque = urre, Finnish = kulta
Miresua = kure

My previous Miresua word for "gold" was "urla", before that it was "ulre". Neither word seemed quite right. It was as if I was trying too hard to start the word with "u".

lead is lyrun (revisited)

lyrun = lead (metal) (some things Google found for "lyrun": an uncommon to rare term; Changsha Lyrun New Material Company Ltd. of China sells nickel foam; user names; a first name which is possibly an alternate spelling or misspelling of Lauryn; an unusual last name; New Lyrun is the name of a city in the game world of Wilwarin)

Word derivation for "lead" (metal):
Basque = berun, Finnish = lyijy
Miresua = lyrun

My previous Miresua word for "lead" was "lunyr". I shuffled the letters. The new word has the same letters as the old word.

bronze is beronsi (revisited)

beronsi = bronze (metal) (noun) (some things Google found for "beronsi": a rare term; an unusual last name; user names)

Word derivation for "bronze" :
Basque = brontze, Finnish = pronssi
Miresua = beronsi

Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin.

My previous word for "bronze" was "berinso". Another small change. I swapped the vowels o and i. This makes my word for "bronze" contain the common letters of "ron" in sequence, like in the Basque and Finnish words (and the English word too).

silver is holar (revisited)

holar = silver (metal, color) (noun) (some things Google found for "holar"; an uncommon term; Hólar is a small historic community in northern Iceland, site of Hólar University College; a last name that can be Czech; part of a the name of a computer virus; a caste in Maharashtra state in India; a town in the Faroe islands)

Word derivation for "silver" (metal, color):
Basque = zilar, Finnish = hopea,
Miresua = holar

My previous Miresua word for "silver" was "lohia", which ended in a vowel combination (ia) which I'm not sure I'll be using in this conlang. My new word is a more straightforward combination of letters from the Basque and Finnish words.