rain is ude (revisited)

ude = rain (noun) (some things Goggle found for "ude": a very common term: UDE is an acronym for The Upper Deck Company which produces trading cards; UDE is an acronym for Unix Desktop Environment; in weapons UDE is an acronym for the color Urban Dark Earth; an unusual to uncommon last name; an unusual first name; means out in Danish; form of the Latin adjective udus which means wet, moist; in Japanese (romaji) ude means arm; Ulan-Ude is the capital of Buryatia, Russia; name of places in Nigeria and Pakistan)

Word derivation for "rain" :
Basque = euri, Finnish = sade
Miresua = ude

My previous Miresua conlang word for rain was dure, which was an alphabetic scramble. The new word is one letter shorter than the Basque and the Finnish words, but that's allowable under my rules.

This word was supposed to be posted on the 18th, but unfortunately that didn't happen. Oops.

I didn't find the word rain in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, but I found it in Through the Looking-glass.

"I see you're admiring my little box." the Knight said in a friendly tone. "It's my own invention -- to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain can't get in."

"But the things can get OUT," Alice gently remarked. "Do you know the lid's open?"

thunder is ukrumo

ukrumo = thunder (noun) (some things Google found for "ukrumo": a very rare term; occurs as bad OCR of a handful of older texts; appears on several gobbledygook webpages; similar Ekrum is a rare last name; similar UKRumors is a Twitter account that has not been recently updated)

Word derivation for "thunder" :
Basque = trumoi, Finnish = ukkonen
Miresua = ukrumo

The Finnish word ukkonen is derived from Ukko, the god of heaven in Finnish mythology.

The word thunder appears once in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in chapter 8, The Queen's Croquet-Ground.

"Get to your places!" shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other....

lightning is txisama

txisama = lightning (noun) (some things Google found for "txisama": a very rare term; occurs on several gobbledygook webpages; similar "txi sama'n" means something in the Mayan language of Mam, occurs several times in a Mam translation of Bible)

Word derivation for "lightning" :
Basque = tximista, Finnish = salama
Miresua = txisama

The word lightning doesn't appear in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, although it appears in Through the Looking-Glass three times.

"The cause of lightning," Alice said very decidedly, for she felt quite certain about this, "is the thunder — no, no!" she hastily corrected herself. "I meant the other way."

wind is huzi (revisited)

huzi = wind (noun) (weather) (some things Google found for "huzi": an uncommon term; Huzi Design of Hong Kong sells handcrafted toys; user names; Huzi is a Shanghai-based female painter of stylized portraits; a rare last name; a very rare first name; in several Japanese romanizations Mount Fuji is transliterated as Mount Huzi; huzi or similar húzi means "beard, mustache" in Mandarin (transliterated); a city and an administrative ward in Tanzania; name of places in China)

Word derivation for "wind" :
Basque = haize, Finnish = tuuli
Miresua = zuati

I'm having another go at the word for wind. My previous word for wind was zuati, a somewhat odd scramble of letters. The new word is shorter than both the Basque and the Finnish words, but only by one letter, which is allowable.

hot is beku (revisited)

beku = hot (adjective) (some things Google found for "beku": a very common term; a rare last name; a very rare first name; user names; BEKU OIL GmbH of Germany sells industrial lubricants and cutting oils; means "frozen, congealed" in Indonesian; in Indonesian "batuan beku" means igneous (literally "rock congealed"); means want in Kannada (transliterated) which is a language of India; names of places in Indonesia, Ghana, Iran and Tanzania)

Word derivation for "hot" :
Basque = bero, Finnish = kuuma
Miresua = beku

I'm redoing the word for hot, as well. In the previous post, I redid cold. I laughed when I found out that beku means frozen in Indonesian. My former Miresua conlang word for hot was koru. I've tried other words for hot too. Hopefully this word will work out, and stick.

By the way, the word hot is in paragraph two of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

cold is holmä (revisited)

holmä = cold (adjective) (some things Google found for "holma" and "holmä": a common term; Holma is an uncommon last name; Nina Holma Photography of Sweden; HOLMA AG of Switzerland produces laser and plasma cutting consumables; similar Holmäng is a rare last name; Holma is an extinct Afro-Asiatic language formerly spoken in Nigeria; similar holme means "small island" in Swedish; Holma is the name of places in Sweden, Finland and Nigeria)

Word derivation for "cold" :
Basque = hotz, Finnish = kylmä
Miresua = holmä

I'm redoing this word, again. My previous word for cold was hyltä, which wasn't a bad word, but I kept thinking it was the word for hot instead of cold. The Basque word even looks like the English word hot.

snow is elmi (revisited)

elmi = snow (noun) (some things Google found for "elmi": an uncommon to rare term; an uncommon last name than can be Italian and can be Somali; Elmi Karbordi (University of applied science) in Iran; a Swedish and Finnish first name that can be feminine; ELMI is an acronym for European Light Microscopy Initiative; ELMI Ltd of Latvia sells laboratory equipment; means helmets in Italian)

Word derivation for "snow" :
Basque = elur, Finnish = lumi
Miresua = elmi

My previous Miresua conlang word for snow was irul, which was an odd scramble of letters. The new word starts like the Basque word and ends like the Finnish word.

storm is etasky

etasky = storm (noun) (some things Google found for "etasky": an uncommon term; eTASKY.cz is a Czech website selling bags, backpacks and cases (in Czech tašky means bags); a rare last name; user names)

Word derivation for "storm"
Basque = ekaitz, Finnish = myrsky
Miresua = etasky

fog is lamu

lamu = fog (noun) (some things Google found for "lamu": a very common term; name of a town, an island, and an archipelago in the Indian Ocean close to the northern coast of Kenya; a last name; Lamu is the title of a song by Christian rock musician Michael W. Smith; name of cities in Indonesia, the Philippines, Ghana, Nigeria and Burma; name of a town in Finland)

Word derivation for "fog"
Basque = laino, Finnish = sumu
Miresua = lamu

This month's theme so far seems to be weather realted words.

wet is muskä (revisited)

muskä = wet (adjective) (some things Google found for "muskä" or "muska": a common term; Muska is a last name notably American professional skateboarder Chad Muska; Supra Muska Skytop shoes; Muska Lighting and Muska Electic Co. of Minnesota; Marija "Muska" Babitzin is a Finnish female singer; user names; muška means "a small fly" in Slovak; muska means "mossy" in Esperanto; muska means "amulet" in Turkish)

Word derivation for "wet"
Basque = busti, Finnish = märkä
Miresua = muskä

My previous Miresua word for "wet" was "burtä". Somehow that word never quite worked for me.

ice is zojä

zojä = ice (noun) (some things Google found for "zojä" or "zoja": an uncommon term; Zoja is a feminine first name that can be Czech; ZOJA Dance Studio in Wisconsin; Zoja is a last name; user names; Zoja II is the name of a ship operated by the Latvian Shipping company)

Word derivation for "ice"
Basque = izotz, Finnish = jää
Miresua = zojä

This is a Miresua word that would not occur in either Basque or Finnish. The Basques wouldn't like the Ä. The Finns wouldn't like the Z.

By the way, the word for ice in Lhaesine, my other conlang, is ufa.

warm is ämel (revisited)

ämel = warm (adjective) (some things Google found for "amel"or "ämel": a very common term; Amel is a feminine first name; Amel is a last name; user names; Amel is a spirit in the novel Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice; Amel is the name of cities in Belgium and France)

Word derivation for "warm":
Basque = epel, Finnish = lämmin
Miresua = ämel

My previous Miresua conlang word for "warm" was "lemel". I didn't like that it took a L from each the Basque word and the Finnish word. I made the new word shorter. There are plenty of 5-letter words in Miresua, I can always use more 4-letter words.

The word graphic is slighty different, less shadowing. The logo package I usually use still isn't working for the letter A with an umlaut.

Update - replaced word graphic with one from logo package.

sun is ugenki (revisited)

ugenki = sun (noun) (some things Google found for "ugenki": a rare term; user names; similar name Genki was a Japanese era in the 16th century and is a Japanese company in the computer and video games industry)

Word derivation for "sun" :
Basque = eguzki, Finnish = aurinko
Miresua = ugenki

My previous Miresua conlang word for "sun" was "urzeni". I changed this word to be more similar to the Basque and the Finnish words, such as having a k as the second to last letter in the word.

cloud is poldi

poldi = cloud (noun) (some things Google found for "poldi": a common term; The Museo Poldi Pezzoli is an art museum in Milan, Italy; a masculine first name which can be short for Leopold; user names; nickname for soccer player
Lukas Podolski)

Word derivation for "cloud":
Basque = hodei, Finnish = pilvi
Miresua = poldi

Given this new word, the word for "cloudy" becomes "poldisne". Good for talking about the weather.

I was thinking about creating a Miresua conlang word for "what", another question word, but that will require more thought.

sky is taizu

taizu = sky (noun) (some things Google found for "taizu": an uncommon term; an imperial temple name typically used for the emperor founding a Chinese dynasty; user names; an unusual masculine first name)

Word derivation for "sky" :
Basque = zeru, Finnish = taivas
Miresua = taizu

The Basque and the Finnish words for sky also translate as heaven. So my word will also mean heaven.