30 August 2009

finch is pento

pentopento = finch (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "pento": an uncommon term; a last name, notably businessman Michael Pento; means "repentance" in Esperanto; means "I repent or I regret" in Italian; name of a city in India; Iso Pento is the name of a town in Finland)

Word derivation for "finch" :
Basque = txonta, Finnish = peippo or peipponen
Miresua = pento

Pento is the word for finch or chaffinch. There's another Basque word I could have used for finch - neguta, which is related to the Basque word for winter.

28 August 2009

sparrow is txeparu

txeparu = sparrow (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "txeparu": an unique term, did not match any documents)

Word derivation for "sparrow" :
Basque = txolarre, Finnish = varpunen
Miresua = txeparu

This word for sparrow was unique in Google, which is quite a feat, helped by the Basque tx consonant combination. In Miresua, as in Basque, tx is prounounced like ch. So txeparu would be pronounced like cheparu.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "sparrow" is now "txuparne".

22 August 2009

magpie is maka

maka = magpie (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "maka": a very common term; a last name; the Maka or Makaa are an ethnic group of Cameroon; Maka Albarn is a female character in the anime and manga Soul Eater; Maka-Maka is a Japanese adult manga series; a Central North Pacific cyclone name; means "eye" in Hawaiian; means "so, therefore" in Indonesian and Malay; means "mug, to throw" in Maori; means "flour" in Polish; means "wife, spouse, married woman" in Swedish; the name of cities in Pakistan, Senegal, Malawi, Madagascar, Camaroon, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Russia, Mali, and the Solomon Islands)

Word derivation for "magpie" :
Basque = mika, Finnish = harakka
Miresua = maka

Here's a word for magpie, the long-tailed, black and white bird of the crow family. I considered making my word for "magpie" be "mahaka", but in the end decided on the shorter word "maka".

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "magpie" is now "mahka".

18 August 2009

raven is porri

porri = raven (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "porri": a common term; a last name; Alternaria porri causes an onion plant purple blocth disease; means "leeks" in Italian; name of a town on the Island of Corsica)

Word derivation for "raven" :
Basque = erroi, Finnish = korppi
Miresua = porri

Here's another bird word. Ravens are generally bigger than crows.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for raven is now roipi.

14 August 2009

crow is beras

beras = crow (bird) (noun) (some things Google found for "beras": a common term; a last name; BERAS stands for Baltic Ecological Recycling Agriculture and Society; a supply company based in the Faroe Islands; a misspelling of "bears"; means "rice" in Indonesian and Malay; means "birch" in Lithuanian; places in Bangladesh, Albania, and Norway)

Word derivation for "crow" :
Basque = bele, Finnish = varis
Miresua = beras

This is another new Miresua word. I'll be doing words for various types of birds.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for crow is now veles.

10 August 2009

sheep is marda

marda = sheep (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "marda": an uncommon term; a Palestinian city in the West Bank; a last name; a feminine first name; Marda Loop is a Business Revitalization Zone in Calgary, Alberta; user names; Marda is the name of towns in Senegal, Somalia and Australia)

Word derivation for "sheep" :
Basque = ardi, Finnish = lammas
Miresua = marda

This is a new Miresua word, not another revision.

This Miresua word has been changed. The word for sheep is now ladis.

06 August 2009

mouse is sigi (revisited)

sigi = mouse (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "sigi": a common term; a masculine first name which can be short for Siegfried or Siegmund; a German feminine first name that can be short for Sieglinde; in the Völsung Cycle of Norse mythology Sigi is said to be one of the sons of Odin; SIGI is the NASDAQ stock symbol for Selective Insurance Group; SIGI is an acronym for Space Integrated GPS/INS which is an Inertial Navigation Unit to control and stabilize spacecraft; SIGI is an acronym for Sisterhood Is Global Institute; SIGI stands for Social Institutions and Gender Index; SIGI is an acronym for System for Interactive Guidance and Information; the name of cities in South Korea, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Ethiopia)

Word derivation for "mouse" :
Basque = sagu, Finnish = hiiri
Miresua = sigi

My previous Miresua word for mouse was sahi. There was nothing wrong with that word, but it was too close in pronunciation to my new word for pig which is sarri.

This word is a word in the conlang language of Miresua. My definition is not in any way intended to be a comment about people or things named sigi.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for mouse is now higu.

02 August 2009

pig is sarri (revisited)

sarri = pig (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "sarri": an uncommon term; "Sarri, Sarri" is a song in Basque by the group Kortatu; a last name which can be Finnish or Spanish or Italian; user names; a Hebrew feminine first name; a misspelling of sari which is a garment worn by females in the Indian subcontinent; means "often, frequent" in Basque)

Word derivation for "pig" :
Basque = txerri, Finnish = sika
Miresua = sarri

My previous word for pig was serki. Nothing against that word, I wanted to use the rr from Basque. I don't usually like to define words that mean something in either Basque or Finnish, but this time I'll make an exception.

This word is a Miresua word for a type of animal. My definition is not in any way intended to be a comment about people or things named sarri.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for pig is now sirri.

30 July 2009

fire is suli (revisited)

suli = fire (noun) (Some things Google found for "suli": SULI is an acronym for Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships; a uncommon first name that can be feminine or masculine; a last name; Abu Bakr bin Yahya al-Suli was a 10th century Arab poet and legendary shatranj (an ancestor of chess) player; Jiangyin Suli Fine Chemical Co., Ltd. of China; means "crook, grifter, cheater, shark" in Estonian; a conjugation of the Finnish verb sulaa which means to melt or to thaw; a slang term for "school" in Hungarian; name of cities in the Philippines, Albania, Nigeria, Mozambique, Indonesia, Serbia & Montenegro and Iraq; name of a town in Russia)

Word derivation for "fire" :
Basque = su, Finnish = tuli
Miresua = suli

My previous Miresua word for "fire" was "sul". I decided to modify this word slightly because both the Basque and Finnish words ended in a vowel.

26 July 2009

horse is halden (revisited)

halden = horse (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "halden": a very common term; a last name; a masculine first name; halden hound (haldenstøvare) is a breed of dog; means "mound, slagheap, slope" in German; name of a cities in Germany, Austria, and notably, Norway)

Word derivation for "horse" :
Basque = zaldi, Finnish = hevonen
Miresua = halden

My previous Miresua word for horse was veldan. Before that my word for horse was heldan. Neither of those words was somehow quite right.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for horse is now zaven.

22 July 2009

fox is kazet (revisited)

kazet = fox (animal) (noun) (some things Google found for "kazet": an uncommon term; title of an album by the South African mbaqanga group the Mahotella Queens; user names; an unusual last name; Kazet Sp. is a Polish window company; a theater company inaugurated by some Jewish Nazi concentration camps theater survivors after WWII; means "catridge, cassette, magazine" in Slovio and maybe in Czech as well; means "accent" in Volapük; name of cities in Burma)

Word derivation for "fox" :
Basque = azeri, Finnish = kettu
Miresua = kazet

My previous Miresua word for "fox" was "tuare". I decided to redo this word because neither the Basque word or the Finnish word has a vowel combination. This new word should end in a vowel, but it doesn't. I decided to allow this word anyway because I think it's a alphabetic better mix.

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for "fox" is now "kezi".

20 July 2009

cow is hebä (revisited)

hebä = cow (creature) (noun) (some things Google found for "heba" and "hebä": a common term; Heba is a feminine first name which may be Arabic; Heba appears as user names; Heba is a last name; Heba Fastighets AB is a Swedeish residential property management company; Abdi-Heba was king of Jerusalem about 1400 B.C.; hebä may mean something in Switzerland; Heba is the name of cities in China, Iraq, and Albania)

Word derivation for "cow" :
Basque = behi, Finnish = lehmä
Miresua = hebä

My previous Miresua conlang word for cow was häbe. This is a minor change. I swapped the vowels around because both the Basque and Finnish words have E as the second letter.

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

This Miresua conlang word has been changed. The word for cow is now lehi.