Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts

30 November 2015

oak is tamitz (revisited)

tamitz = oak (tree, wood) (noun) (some things Google found for "tamitz": a rare term; user names; a rare last name; a very rare first name; similar Stamitz is the last name of a family of Czech composers; similar Tamitsa is the name of a place in a Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia)

Word derivation for "oak" :
Basque = haritz, Finnish = tammi
Miresua = tamitz

My previous Miresua conlang word for oak was mitar, which was a total alphabetic scramble. Years ago I wasn't trying to make my words look like a mix of Basque and Finnish.

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

02 February 2015

tree is puiz (revisited)

puiz = tree (noun) (some things Google found for "puiz": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; a rare first name; user names; a misspelling of quiz; means a well in Middle French; similar Puis is a place in the Philippines)

Word derivation for "tree" :
Basque = zuhaitz, Finnish = puu
Miresua = puiz

My previous Miresua conlang word for tree was pauzu. I'm redoing this word mainly for esthetic reasons. I like that this change makes the word for tree more like the word for wood, pur.

By the way, putz would have been a good alphabetic mix of the Basque and Finnish words, but I don't want to insult trees by calling a tree a putz.

The word tree (and also trees) appears quite a few times in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
...she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off.

30 December 2009

leaf is hesti (revisited)

hestihesti = leaf (noun) (some things Google found for "hesti": an uncommon term: a feminine first name that can be Indonesian; user names; an unusual last name; datative case of "stallion or horse" in Faroese and "horse" in Icelandic; similar name Hestia is the Greek goddess of the hearth)

Word derivation for "leaf":
Basque = hosto, Finnish = lehti
Miresua = hesti

My previous Miresua conlang word for "leaf" was "helto".

18 April 2008

forest is boste

bosteboste = forest (noun) (some things Google found for "boste": a very common term; a last name, notably St. John Boste (c.1544-1594) who is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, and Australian singer-songwriter Cyndi Boste; Boste waterlamps; user names; Boste fashion clothing for women of Australia; means "will you, you will" in Slovenian; places in Slovenia and Sweden)

Word derivation for "forest" :
Basque = baso, Finnish = metsä
Miresua = boste

Maybe this word seems fitting to me because of its similarity to the Spanish word for "forest" which is "bosque".

16 January 2007

maple is targave

targavetargave = maple (tree, wood) (noun) (some things Google found for "targave": a rare term; name of a road in Charleston, South Carolina; means something in Albanian; a last name)

Word derivation for "maple" :
Basque = astigar, Finnish = vaahtera
Miresua = targave