26 March 2007

name is emin

eminemin = name (noun) (some things Google found for "emin": a very common term; The Emin, earlier called the Emin Society or Emin Foundation but now known as The Template Network, have an open philosophy of life and living; a last name, notably English artist of Turkish Cypriot origin Tracey Emin; a masculine first name that is Armenian and Turkish in origin meaning "honest"; EMIN stands for East Midlands Incubation Network in the UK; name of a place in China)

Word derivation for "name" :
Basque = izen, Finnish = nimi
Miresua = emin

22 March 2007

fat is loiha (redone)

loiha = fat (adjective) (some things Google found for "loiha": an uncommon to rare term; loiha.org is the website for Las Olas Isles Homeowners Association in Ft. Lauderdale; seems to mean "project" in Uzbek (Transliterated); user names; a last name in Thailand)

Word derivation for "fat" :
Basque = lodi, Finnish = lihava
Miresua = loiha

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for fat (adjective) is now lova.

20 March 2007

fat is galiza (retracted - source word error)

galiza = fat (adjective) (some things Google found for "galiza": a very common term; means "Galicia" in Portuguese, Galicia is a region in Spain in the northwest of Iberian Peninsula - an overwhelming result; a last name; name of a place in Portugal)

Word derivation for "fat" :
Basque = gantz, Finnish = lihava
Miresua = galiza

My Basque source word was wrong here. Gantz is a Basque noun, not an adjective, for fat.

14 March 2007

candle is kinelta

candlekinelta = candle (noun) (some things Google found for "kinelta": an very rare, nearly unique, term; possibly a name on a Finnish language forum)

Word derivation for "candle" :
Basque = kandela, Finnish = kynttilä
Miresua = kinelta

08 March 2007

coin is koxikan

koxikankoxikan = coin (noun) (some things Google found for "koxikan": a very rare term; apparently means something in Kurdish (Transliterated) but what it means I don't know)

Word derivation for "coin" :
Basque = txanpon, Finnish = kolikko
Miresua = koxikan

Note - the 'x' is pronounced like 'sh'

02 March 2007

chant is lalku

lalkulalku = chant (noun) (some things Google found for "lalku": an uncommon to rare term; a place in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, Kuz Lalku and Lalku valley also; user name; a masculine first name in India)

Word derivation for "chant" :
Basque = kantu, Finnish = laulu
Miresua = lalku

This was originally the word for song. It has been slightly modified to become the word for chant. The Basque and Finnish words do work for chant.

The new Miresua word for song, abelu, uses what appears to be the more common Basque word for song, abesti, instead of kantu.

24 February 2007

shadow is iljar

iljar = shadow (noun) (some things Google found for "iljar": an uncommon term; a word in Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry; perhaps a proper name in Estonian; user name; a form of word meaning "sole of the foot" in Icelandic; a first name which is likely masculine and possibly German in origin; a place in Albania which is also called Iljare)

Word derivation for "shadow" :
Basque = itzal, Finnish = varjo
Miresua = iljar

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for shadow is now irjal.

18 February 2007

square is nölai

squarenölai = square (noun) (some things Google found for "nölai" or "nolai": a rare term; Nolai is a last name that can be Hungarian or Indian; there's a Sarangpur Nolai Rd somewhere in India; pseudo-language called NOLAI is used by universities to introduce programming; nolai means squirrel in Pashto which is an Indo-Iranian language spoken in Pakistan and Afghanistan)

Word derivation for "square" :
Basque = lauki, Finnish = neliö
Miresua = nölai

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for square is now nelki.

14 February 2007

yes is käbi

käbikäbi = yes (adverb) (assent or agreement or affirmation) (some things Google found for "käbi" and "kabi": a common term; Käbi is a feminine name, notably Estonian concert pianist Käbi Laretei; a last name, also probably Estonian; Käbi Külalistemaja guest house in Estonia; Fresenius Kabi AG is a German company with therapy for critically and chronically ill patients; KABI is a code for Abilene Texas Regional Airport; Kabi Golf Course in Queensland Australia; Kabi Plastics of the UK; "Goizeko Kabi" is the name of a pair of Basque restaurants in Spain; Kabi are an aboriginal people of Australia; Novell kABI Notification Service for Linux kernel changes; "käbi" means "cone" in Estonian; "kabi" means "hoof" in Estonian and means "badly" in Zulu; "Kabi" is the name of places in Gabon, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of the Congo; Republic of the Congo, Niger, Ethiopia, Turkey, and Estonia)

Word derivation for "yes" :
Basque = bai, Finnish = kyllä
Miresua = käbi

10 February 2007

no is eiz

eizeiz = no (adverb) (refusal or denial or disagreement) (some things Google found for "eiz": a common term; EIZ stands for Engineering Institution of Zambia; EIZ stands for Europäisches Informations-Zentrum (European information center) of Germany; EIZ is Expertisecentrum Informele Zorg (Service Centre informal care) of the Netherlands; EIZ stands for Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich of Switzerland; Eiz Gallery in New Hampshire; user name; EIZ stands for Ekonomski institut Zagreb of Croatia; EIZ is Environmental Improvement Zones in Canada; German hip-hop artist Eizi Eiz; EIZ is Energy Innovation Zone in the UK; Eiz Consultants, corporate and business image, of Canada; a last name from Egypt; an area in Germany)

Word derivation for "no" :
Basque = ez, Finnish = ei
Miresua = eiz

06 February 2007

flower is loku

flowerloku = flower (noun) (some things Google found for "loku": an uncommon term; title of an online collection of really bad haiku; user names; "Eya Dan Loku Lamayek" is a 1975 movie from Sri Lanka; "Ka Ua Loku" is a Hawaiian song title; a last and first name from Sri Lanka; means "tall" in Sinhala (transliterated); "Loku and the Shark Attack" is a young adult book about a boy living in Papua New Guinea; a place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Word derivation for "flower" :
Basque = lore, Finnish = kukka
Miresua = loku

02 February 2007

table is paimä

paimä = table (noun) (furniture) (some things Google found for "paimä" or "paima": an uncommon term; PAIMA stands for Pan American Movers Association of Panama; Behr Paima is a hydrographic-cum-oceanographic survey and Research vessel of Pakistan; a last name that can be Finnish and Peruvian; Paima Shan Peaks of Western China; PAIMA stands for Pakistan-Afghanistan Independent Media Association; Paima is the name of places in Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Malawi)

Word derivation for "table" :
Basque = mahai, Finnish = pöytä
Miresua = paimä

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for table is now pöhai.