week is oska (revisited)

oska = week (noun) (some things Google found for "oska": a very common term: OSKA Clothing for women; OSKA (Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen) architects; Oska DeskMate software; user names; a last name; Oska Bright film festival of the UK shows short films made by people with learning disabilities; a masculine first name; means "hickory nut" in Chickasaw"; name of a town in Russia)

Word derivation for "week"
Basque = aste, Finnish = viikko
Miresua = oska

My previous word for week was soika. This change shortens the word, which will help with compound words. It's also good to add to the small number of Miresua words starting with "o".

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for week is now asko.

winter is tagu (revisited)

tagu = 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.

four is julna (revisited)

julna = four (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "julna": an uncommon term; a feminine first name; "Tumse Milna Julna" are lyrics from a Hindi song; JULNA is an air traffic controller waypoint in the US; name of male lead character (played by Tony Curtis) in adventure movie The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951) which is set in 13th century Tangiers)

Word derivation for "four"
Basque = lau, Finnish = neljä
Miresua = julna

My previous word for four was jela. Basque and Finnish may not contain the consonants ln together in their words, but I've included it in my Miresua conlang.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for four is now nelu.

five is vosi (revisited)

vosi = five (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "vosi": an uncommon term; VOSI is an acronym for Voices of Safety International; a last name; user names; vosi hnizda is a Czech Christmas sweet; name of cities in Greece, Czech Republic, and Latvia)

Word derivation for "five"
Basque = bost, Finnish = viisi
Miresua = vosi

My previous word for "five" was "siboi". This word was changed because of the "oi" diphthong (neither the Basque word or the Finnish word has a diphthong) and because I somehow just didn't like that "siboi" was pronounced like SEE-BOY.

one is yst (revisited)

yst = one (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "yst": a common term; Yamaha YST series subwoofers; YST is an acronym for Yukon Standard Time; YST stands for Yahoo! Search Technology; a last name; user names; means "surplus" in Albanian)

Word derivation for "one"
Basque = bat, Finnish = yksi
Miresua = yst

My previous Miresua conlang word for "one" was "bys". All the letters I didn't use to make "yst" are used in making the word for "two" which, as seen in the previous post, is "baki".

I usually add words to this blog every four days, but I'm going to post every two days for a while, until I get done with these revisions.

two is baki (revisited)

baki = two (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "baki": a very common term; manga and anime character Baki the Grappler; Bâkî was a 16th cenutury Ottoman Turkish poet; a masculine first name; a last name that can be from Hungary; means "tray" in Indonesian; means "bake" in Esperanto; the name of cities in Indonesia, Azerbaijan (more commonly spelled Baku), Senegal, Poland, Nigeria, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan)

Word derivation for "two"
Basque = bi, Finnish = kaksi
Miresua = baki

My previous Miresua conlang word for "two" was "kai". I changed this word to not contain a vowel combination, and also because "kai" means "probably" in Finnish.

three is herlo (revisited)

herlo = three (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "herlo": an uncommon term; user names; a last name; Herlo Realty in the Chicago area; Herlo Auto Repair in Florida; Herlo Inc in New Jersey; name of a town in Norway)

Word derivation for "three"
Basque = hiru, Finnish = kolme
Miresua = herlo

My previous Miresua conlang word for three was mirlo. I changed this word to use the h. Both Basque and Finnish seem to use the letter h more often than I do in Miresua.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for three is now kire.

six is usei (revisited)

usei = six (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "usei": a very common term; USEI.PK is the stock symbol for US Energy Initiatives Corporation; user names; USEI is an acronym for Undergraduate Statistics Education Initiative; USEI computer monitors; Usei shônen popi or Prince Planet was a 1965-1966 animated Japanese TV series; a last name; means I used in Portuguese; means the sound of rain in Japanese (transliterated))

Word derivation for "six"
Basque = sei, Finnish = kuusi
Miresua = usei

My previous Miresua word for six was uskei.

I realize that this word starts with a vowel and both the Basque and Finnish words start with consonants. Since there are two U in the Finnish word I'm allowing this bending of the rules.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for six is now sui.

eight is zekasti (revisited)

zekasti = eight (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "zekasti": a rare term; user names; may mean something in Serbian)

Word derivation for "eight"
Basque = zortzi, Finnish = kahdeksan
Miresua = zekasti

My previous Miresua word for eight was zekorda, which looked vaguely Spanish. I changed the word to end in i, like many numbers in Basque and Finnish. Also I included a t, which is a letter that I use less than I probably should.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for eight is now kahetzi.

nine is erendisä (revisited)

erendisä = nine (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "erendisa": a rare term, possibly a last name; a name mentioned on several Serbian Tolkien fan forums)

Word derivation for "nine"
Basque = bederatzi, Finnish = yhdeksän
Miresua = erendisä

My previous Miresua conlang word for nine was debeikan. I decided to change this word because it had a vowel combination diphthong when neither the Basque word or the Finnish word did, and it had no consonants together.

This new word can begin with a vowel because the Finnish word starts with the vowel "y". It also has a consonant combination.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for nine is now dereksä.

ten is myknar (revisited)

myknar = ten (number) (adjective) (some things Google found for "myknar": a rare term; user names; a fictional character name; appears on a webpage that looks like gobbledygook)

Word derivation for "ten"
Basque = hamar, Finnish = kymmenen
Miresua = myknar

My previous Miresua conlang word for ten was myrane. As both the Basque and the Finnish words for ten end in a consonant, I wanted my Miresua word to end in a consonant as well. The new word is also simplier.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for ten is now hamen.

gray is aris (revisited)

aris = gray (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "aris": a common term; a masculine first name and short for Greek names such as Aristotle or Aristo; a last name that can be English; ARIS Software LLC; means "edge or hem" in Indonesian; name of cities in Spain and Greece and a town in Namibia)

Word derivation for "gray" (or grey):
Basque = gris, Finnish = harmaa
Miresua = aris

My previous Miresua conlang word for gray was arais. I'm shortening this word by one letter to make the plural simplier. (Yes, there are adjective plurals.) Also arais looked more like French than I wanted.

I prefer to begin my Miresua word with a consonant when both the Basque and Finnish words start with a constant, but in this case having three "a"s in the Finnish word was an overriding factor. In addition there's another Basque word, arre, which can mean dark gray, as well as something to say to encourage a donkey to get moving.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for gray is now haris.