Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasons. Show all posts

28 April 2013

autumn is udaksy (revisited)

udaksy = autumn (season) (noun) (some things Google found for "udaksy": a very rare term; user name; appears on gobbledygook webpages; similar Udak is a rare last name)

Word derivation for "autumn" :
Basque = udazken, Finnish = syksy
Miresua = syskun

This is another revision. My previous word for autumn was syskun. I decided to redo this word, again, because in Basque three out of the four words for seasons begin with u, specifically uda, which means summer. Before this change, none of my Miresua seasons began with the letter u.

Note on pronunciation, the y (as in Finnish) is pronounced like ü, or like u in the French word tu.

06 June 2009

sping is verat (revisited)

veratverat = spring (season) (noun and adjective) (some things Google found for "verat": an uncommon term; VeratNet is a Serbian telecommunications company; a last name; homeopathic remedy Veratrum Album is shortened to verat.; means "mackerel" in Catalan; means "truth" in Volapük; Le Verat is the name of a city in Belgium)

Word derivation for "spring" :
Basque = udaberri, Finnish = kevät
Miresua = verat

My previous Miresua word for spring was berdät. After some thought, I decided to change, and simplify, the word.

The Basque word for spring, udaberri, literally means summer + new.

02 June 2009

summer is keda (revisited)

kedakeda = summer (season) (noun and adjective) (some things Google found for "keda": a very common term; a feminine first name; KEDA is an AM radio station in San Antonio, Texas; a last name; KEDA is an acronym for Kansas (or Kitsap or Keweenaw) Economic Development Alliance; Keda Communications Ltd of China; user names; means "whom" in Estonian; names of cities in Niger, Afghanistan, and Guinea; a small town in the republic of Georgia)

Word derivation for "summer" :
Basque = uda, Finnish = kesä
Miresua = keda

My previous Miresua word for summer was seda. This is a small change.

18 February 2009

winter is tagu (revisited)

tagutagu = winter (noun and adjective) (some things Google found for "tagu": a very common term; user names; month in the traditional Burmese or Myanmar calendar (April); a last name; Tagu lizard; means "to choke, to strangle" in Welsh; name of cities in South Korea, Romania, Burma and Papua New Guinea)

Word derivation for "winter"
Basque = negu, Finnish = talvi
Miresua = tagu

My previous word for "winter" was "vilun". As both the Basque word and the Finnish word end in a vowel, I think my Miresua word should too.