miresua conlang: verb stem

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26 December 2011

calm is byne

byne = calm (adjective) (some things Google found for "byne": a common term: a last name; Byne Memorial Baptist Church and Byne Memorial Baptist Home (a private school) in Albany, Georgia; Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (English title: The Adventures Of Goopy And Bagha) is a Bengali children's film; Byne's disease, or more accurately Bynesian decay, is a damaging condition which attacks mollusk shells that are in storage or on display for long periods of time; The Byne Group of New York for advertising and marketing; Byne Crossroads is a place in southern Georgia)

Word derivation for "calm" :
Basque = bare or baretsu, Finnish = tyyni
Miresua = byne

The Basque word bare also means slug and spleen. There's another word in Basque for calm, lasai, but that word has more the meaning of relaxed and easy-going.

14 November 2011

clean is gurda (revisited)

gurda = clean (adjective) (some things Google found for "gurda": an uncommon term; an uncommon last name; Gurda Tango Boutique Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Gurda Wildmane and Gurda Ragescar are humanoid NPCs in World of Warcraft; similar Gurdas is a Punjabi name; in Hindi (transliterated) gurda means kidney, as in Indian food recipes; the name of places in India, Pakistan and Nigeria)

Word derivation for "clean" :
Basque = garbi, Finnish = puhdas
Miresua = gurda

My previous Miresua word for clean was gardas. The new word, gurda, is the adjective clean, but it'll also be the stem for the verb to clean. For Miresua, I'm trying to follow the example of Basque grammar for verbs, and hence giving myself a headache. In Basque, to clean is a non-finite secondary verb.

06 March 2010

dirty is zikain

zikain = dirty (adjective) (some things Google found for "zikain": a rare term; name of a World of Warcraft character; possibly a last name; part of a user name)

Word derivation for "dirty" (unclean) :
Basque = zikin, Finnish = likainen
Miresua = zikain

The Basque and Finnish words are strangely similar, there are four letters in common. That's unusual.

My word definition should not be seen as a comment about people and things called "zikain". I have nothing against anyone or anything named "zikain". This is merely a word in my made-up, conlang language.

About Miresua

Miresua is an imaginary language.

Miresua is a scramble of Basque and Finnish, two languages that I don't actually speak but I find interesting. Words are intended to look foreign to English speakers.

There is nobody in this world that speaks Miresua as their native language. Miresua is a made-up, constructed language used in my fantasy writing.

The Basque and Finnish words shown are correct to the best of my knowledge.

When I say that a word equals something in English that is my definition only; it's not true in the real world. The miscellaneous information I list about the words is what Google search found on the Internet for that word.

The grammar of Miresua will take rules from Basque and Finnish. Miresua will be agglutinative language (as are Basque and Finnish), a regular language with a high rate of affixes per word. Miresua will be a Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) language, which is like Basque, but unlike Finnish (and English). Although unlike Basque, but like Finnish, adjectives occur before the noun which they modify. Miresua, unlike Finnish, doesn't feature vowel harmony. (For my experiment with vowel harmony, see my Samgur artlang).