31 October 2005

sigil is qwed

qwed = sigil (sign or mark) (Lhaesine pronunciation = QUED) (some things Google found for "qwed": an uncommon term; QWED s.c. is a Polish software company; QWED is Quantum Well Electroabsorption Device; QWED is Quick-Wright Electrical Distributors, Inc.; something in medieval English perhaps "whet" or "sharpen"; a user name; gobbledygook references)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "sigil" is now "cwed". This posting is no longer current.

30 October 2005

big is jile

jile = big (JILE, rymes with Nile) (uncommon term in Google; Jile Temple, a Buddhist temple in Northeast China; JILE is Joint Intelligence Liaison Element to the CIA; there's a Suzhou Jile Electric Co., Ltd. and Beijing JILE Electronics Group Co., Ltd; in China; "Chaos Jile", "Chasm Jile", "Magna Jile", "Hunter Jile", etc. are Magi-Nation CCG cards, "jile" appears to be a "dream creature"; "O'Jile" is a last name; something in Czech; a first name; means "gaol" or "jail" in Scots; JILE is Journal of Indiana Law Enforcement; "jile" means "extremely" in Chinese; three-foot-long Jile sword among Afar people and curved jile knife in Harar, both in Ethiopia)

29 October 2005

lamp is mrade (revisited)

mrade = lamp (MRAID, rhymes with "braid") (uncommon to rare term in Google; MRADE is Midwest Regional Association for Developmental Education; user name; MRADE is Mountain Region Association of Diabetes Educators in Virginia; Google asked "Did you mean: trade"; odd misspelling of "made"; something not in Spanish, not Portuguese, but close - perhaps Catalan; likely something in Polish)

Dropped one letter, previously there was an "i" between the "m" and "r"

This word has been changed back to what it was before. The word for "lamp" is ow "mirade". This posting is no longer current.

lake is dax

dax = lake (Lhaesine pronunciation = DACKS) (some things Google found for "dax": a very common term; Germany's DAX stock index; a masculine first name; a last name, example, alt. rock musician Danielle Dax; DAX systems does voice processing; the DAX is a moped by Honda; Dax stores sells patio and bedroom furniture; DAX Innovations, Inc. has software for expecting parents; Star Trek Deep Space Nine character Jadzia Dax; dvd backups by Dax Archiving software; Hau Den Dax is a flash game; Diocese of Dax, an ancient French diocese, its territory now belonging to the Diocese of Aix and Bayonne; a cathedral town in France, Aquitaine region; this "word" was not inspired by the Star Trek character)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "lake" is now "daec". This posting is no longer current.

28 October 2005

man is cin

cin = man (Lhaesine pronunciation = KIHN) (some things Goggle found for "cin": a very common term; CIN is stock symbol for Cinergy Corp.; CIN is Catholic Information Network; CiN Weekly is a Cincinnati entertainment guide; CIN Internet Services; CiN is Children in Need on in UK; CIN is Computers, Informatics, Nursing; CIN is Chemical Industry Notes; CiN is Chameleon information network; CIN is Christian Interactive Network; CIN is Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional in Argentina; a first name; CIN is Community Information Network for the City of St. Louis; several restaurants called "Cin Cin"; in computer language C++, I/O function cin; to cancer doctors CIN is Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia; "Cin Cin" is a 1991 comedy movie starring Julie Andrews and Marcello Mastroianni; a last name; CIN is Career Information Network; I think this word is interesting for "man" because it's close to "can", is pronounced like "kin", but looks like it might be pronounced as "sin", like in original sin)

27 October 2005

lamp is mirade

mirade = lamp (Lhaesine pronunciation = MIH-raid) (some things Google found for "mirade": a fairly common term; a name; Mirade Studios; name of a slave in Louisiana; opera by Adolph Hasse "Mirade and Damari," an intermezzo from 1726; "mirando" means "aiming" in Italian; "mirando" means "looking" in Spanish; misspelling of "myriad"; spelling inspired by word "tirade", meaning somewhat inspired by "mirror" and "aid")

I changed this word to "mrade". I'm not sure why I decided to use that strange "mr" consonant combination. Now I'm reinstating this word. My Lhaesine word for "lamp" is again "mirade".

26 October 2005

wool is chel

chel = wool (Lhaesine pronunciation = CHEL) (some things Google found for "chel": a very common term; a first name, Chel White makes short films; "Ix Chel" was the old Moon goddess in Mayan mythology; there's a Chel. region (Chelyabinsk) in Russia; Mega-Chel is a supplement; place called "Chel Boz" in Iran; user names; CA. alt metal band Adema (somewhat like Korn) has a song titled Chel; means "bald" in Romanian; name of cities in Pakistan, Mexico, Iran and Guatemala)

25 October 2005

creek is guisa

guisa = creek (Lhaesine pronunciation = GYOO-suh) (some things Google found for "guisa": a common term; noble French last name, decendant from Duke of Lorena; hispanic last name; means "it stews" (cook?) in Spanish and Portuguese; means "in the guise of" or "is like" in Italian; G.U.I.S.A. is Galway United Independent Supporters Association, football club fans in Ireland; town of Guisa in Cuba known for a battle between Fidel Castro and Batista's soldiers in 1958; there's a 1940s Mexican-American dance track (mambo?) called "Guisa Gacha"; an Italian name)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "creek" is now "gousa". This posting is no longer current.

This word has been redone. The Lhaesine word for "creek" is now "saesal".

24 October 2005

left is birat

birat = left (Lhaesine pronunciation = BIH-raht) (direction) (Some things Google found for "birat": an uncommon term; a French last name; first name of people from Nepal, India, and Kyrgyz Republic; industrial city of Biratnagar in Nepal; Birat Shoes Company LTD. in Kathmandu, Nepal; there was a Raja Birat in Bangladesh; a King Birat in northern India; Birat Sanskrit College in India; in Croatian birati means choose; name of cities in the Philippines and Papua New Guinea; Birat Kaftayn is a city in Syria)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "left" is now "puralt". This posting is no longer current.

I have redefined "birat" in Lhaesine as "ditch".

23 October 2005

right is lanx

lanx = right (direction)(Lhaesine pronunciation = LAHNKS) (some things Google found for "lanx": a common term; LANX Fabrics sells Chemical and Biological Protective Apparel; LANX is Ballarat Gaming Community in Australia; LANX Hardware in South Africa; Lanx, dim. lancula is a Roman large serving platter made of silver or some other metal; shortface lanx is a freshwater mollusk; user name of several people; Satura Lanx is a Finnish band; L.A.N.X is a student university group in Amsterdam; LanX is Latin American Networx in Argentina; mentioned in connection with computer LANs)

This word has been revised. The word for "right" is now "cebat". This posting is no longer current.

22 October 2005

horse is daein

daein = horse (Lhaesine pronunciation = DAW-in) (some things Google found for "daein": a common term; a Korean first name; Daein Sistem Informatika is an IT company in Indonesia; "doing" in Scots, a webpage on Scottish literacy is titled "Creative writing? I'm no daein that!"; there's a Daein Chemical Co., Ltd. in Korea; there's a Ed Daein Province in Sudan; in Nintendo game Fire Emblem there's a Daein kingdom)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "horse" is now "dehan". This posting is no longer current.

21 October 2005

box is covya

covya = box (Lhaesine pronunciation = COVE-ya) (some things Google found for "covya": rare term in Google; something in Cornish; bait for suck on this spambots; variable name in an ecology software program; various gobbledygook references; Google asks "did you mean covey" which means "a small flock of birds"; my definition perhaps inspired by "cover")

This word has been revised. The current word for "box" is "coaya". This posting is now longer current.

20 October 2005

bird is irert

irert = bird (Lhaesine pronunciation = IR-ert) (some things Google found for "irert": an uncommon term; part of "In-sp-irert design" in Norway; misspelling in "inert"; Irert is Inspetoria Regional de Esportes e Lazer de Tatuí in Portugal; IRERT is Indian Radiology Education and Research Trust in India; a name)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "bird" is now "ivern". This posting is no longer current.

19 October 2005

wolf is hiivar

hiivar = wolf (Lhaesine pronunciation = HIGH-vahr) (some things Google found for "hiivar": a very rare term; maybe something in Norwegian; Library of Babel appears not only once but twice on first page which indicates this is a highly unusual word; my definition for this word somewhat inspired by French word "hiver" which means "winter")

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "wolf" is now "hiegar". This posting is no longer current.

18 October 2005

east is naigo

naigo = east (Lhaesine pronunciation = NAY-goh) (some things Google found for "naigo": an uncommon term; possibly a Spanish masculine first name; character in a kid's story; means "hit" in Cebuano, a language in the Philippines; a last name; NAIGO is National Association of Iranian Obstetrics and Gynecology; something in Bangla the language of Bangladesh)

This word has been redone. The Lhaesine word for "east" is now "seadon". This posting is no longer current.

17 October 2005

west is maigor

maigor = west (Lhaesine pronunciation = MAY-gohr) (some things Google found for "maigor": an uncommon term; there's a Maigor the magician in Pantomime of Little Red Riding Hood; Maigor OÜ, whatever that is, in Estonia; misspelling of "major"; first name of someone from Sierra Leone; a last name someone baptized in Thurloxton, county Somerset, UK in 1691; first name of someone from Poland; first name of someone named Smith who died in 1865)

This word has been redone. The Lhaesine word for "west" is now "haidon". This posting is no longer current.

16 October 2005

south is jiden

jiden = south (Lhaesine pronunciation = JIH-dehn) (some things Google found for "jiden": a common term; means "autobiography" in Japanese; means the number 1 in the West Slavic dialect of Kashubian; "Asef Jiden" means "I'm very sorry" in Libyan Arabic; means "Yiddish" in Albanian; a probably Nigerian last name; a Malay surname)

15 October 2005

north is eriden

eriden = north (Lhaesine pronunciation = eh-RIH-dehn) (some things Google found for "eriden": an uncommon term; someone's fantasy character; ERIDEN PF is a pulp and papermill fungicide; Eriden is an Island in the world of Neotopia, possibly an anime or comic world; mispelling of "Meriden"; there's a YA SF book titled The Rains of Eriden (1977) by H.M. Hoover; a place in Rubies of Eventide online game; name from The Biblical Antiquities of Philo, a retelling of the Hebrew Bible from Genesis to the end of 1 Samuel; possibly something in Japanese; a classical music piece; apparently something in Euskara, the Basque language)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "north" is now "erden". This posting is no longer current.

14 October 2005

gate is banrit

banrit = gate (Lhaesine pronunciation = BAHN-riht) (some
things Google found for "banrit": an uncommon term; perhaps a word in German; a first name; mispelling of "bandit"; perhaps something in Swedish)

This word has been revised. The new word for "gate" is "barul". This posting is no longer current.

13 October 2005

day is arua

arua = day (Lhaesine pronunciation = ah-ROO-uh) (some things Google found for "arua": an uncommon term; there's an Arua district and town in northwest Uganda; ARUA is Associazione Regionale Utenti Auto in Italy; Arua is an extinct language of Brazil; there's an Arua, Fiji; ARUA is Alberta Rural Utilities Association; a last name)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "day" is now "iun". This posting is no longer current.

12 October 2005

night is temel

temel = night (Lhaesine pronunciation = TEH-mehl) (some things Goggle found for "temel": a very common term; a Strategic Internet & Marketing Solutions Company; a Euro-Mediterranean restaraunt in Fairfax, Virginia; Temel Harita, Inc. is a mapping, surveying, and engineering consulting firm in Istanbul; "Temel" is a masculine name which means "fundamental, basic" in Turkish)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "night" is now "nire". This posting is no longer current. "Temel" has be redefined to mean "stone".

11 October 2005

blue is vure (redefined)

vure = blue (Lhaesine pronunciation = VOOR) (color) (a city in the Soloman Islands; a last name; something possibly in Afrikaans; "Vure Vure" is a place for diving in Fiji; something in possibly Croatian; VURE is Vanderbilt University Real Estate; inspired somewhat by blue shade of "azure")

Completely changed this "word". Exercising the right to change my mind. My previous "word" wasn't, upon much consideration, quite right.

This word has been redone, twice. The word for "blue" is now "rima". This posting is no longer current.

This word has been reused and redefined as "half".

10 October 2005

sky is zolde

zolde = sky (Lhaesine pronunciation = ZOLD, rhymes with bold) (some things Google found for "zolde": a rare last name, possibly Romanian; a Jewish feminine first name; seems to be a place in Belgium; there's a INDÚSTRIAS ZOLDE LTDA a container maker in Brazil; possibly some word in Dutch and Russian; inspired by a lyric mentioning "selling the sky")

This word has been revised. The word for "sky" is now "zale". This posting is no longer current.

09 October 2005

fire is ife

ife = fire (Lhaesine pronunciation = EYEF) (some things Google found for "ife": IFE is Institution of Fire Engineers, a meaning which seems to me to be a sign that this a good "word" choice; Ife is a place in southwestern Nigeria with origins that can be traced back to 350 B.C.; IFE is Inertial fusion energy; IFE is Internships in Francophone Europe in France; IFE is Institute of Freshwater Ecology in UK; IFE is Institute for Energy Technology in Norway; a last name)

This word has been redone. The word for "fire" is now "zem". This posting is no longer current.

08 October 2005

tree is wir

wir = tree (Lhaesine pronunciation = WIHR) (some things Google found for "wir": means "we" in German; WIR bank in Switzerland; WIR stands for Wisconsin International Raceway; WIR is Week in Review; WiR is Women in Research; WIR is Wisconsin Immunization Registry; WIR is World Investment Report; WIR is Wyoming Internet Resources; Wir is the title of a 2003 German dramatic movie; WIR is Western Interstate Region; seems to be a form of "our" in Scots)

07 October 2005

rain is minden

minden = rain (Lhaesine pronunciation = MIHND-ehn) (some things Google found for "minden": a common term; a historic town in Germany, Charlemange held a convention there; Battle of Minden in 1759 in Seven Years War; place called Minden in Louisiana; Minden Hills in Ontario Canada; there's a Minden in central Nebraska; Minden-Tahoe Airport is a general aviation airport in Nevada; Minden City in Michigan; Minden, Iowa; a last name; oddly inspired by word "minden" which means "everything" in Hungarian, but not pronounced same as in Hungarian)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "rain" is now "mibun". This posting is no longer current.

06 October 2005

fortress is avgael

avgael = fortress (Lhaesine pronunciation = AHV-gawl) (noun) (some things Google found for "avgael": a rare term, first site listed is "Suck on this, spam bots!"; possibly a French last name, on something called names database, but so are numerous letter combinations; inspired by a mainframe program name)

This word has been redone. My word for "fortress" is now "dagran".

05 October 2005

book is toqwa

toqwa = book (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAW-qwuh) (some things Google found for "toqwa": a rare term; Toqwa'tu'kl Kjijitaqnn aboriginal affairs in Canada; Toqwa’q means "Fall season" in Mi'kmaq in Nova Scotia; something islamic; note that "taqua" means "fear of Allah", which may account for the something islamic; this is a "word" that has been pondered, I wasn't at first sure if I liked the "o" or the "q", but liked "qw" combination instead of "qu"; inspired by "Chautauqua" Theater in Boulder, CO)

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "book" is now "tocwa". This posting is no longer current.

04 October 2005

bridge is grai

grai = bridge (Lhaesine pronunciation = GRAY) (some things Google found for "grai": GRAI is Global Returnable Asset Identifier; a first name; GRAI is the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Retirement Association Inc. in Australia - yikes; there's a la Grai district somewhere in Vietnam; Grai methodology for business performance; UNAVCO has a monument with code name of GRAI; word inspired simply by the color "gray", my chosen meaning came later)

This word has been redone. The Lhaesine word for "bridge" is now "palta". This posting is no longer current.

03 October 2005

song is tsaley

tsaley = song (Lhaesine pronunciation = TSAIL-ee) (noun) (some things Google found for "tsaley": a Russian Jewish surname, mispelling of surname "Staley"; an Isreali first name; mispelling of "Tsali", a Cherokee hero and a recreation area in North Carolina)

This word is no longer current, but I haven't redefined it. I no longer allow the "ts" consonant combination in Lhaesine, and I don't allow nouns to end in "ey".

02 October 2005

deer is peme

peme = deer (Lhaesine pronunciation = PEEM) (part of Tibetan mantra "Om mani peme hung" where "pe" purifies stupidity and prejudice, the animal realm, and "me" purifies greed, the realm of hungry ghosts; PEME is Peterborough Electrical and Mechanical Engineering in UK; pemes is "political memes"; PEME is Pre-Employment Medical Examination Programme)

01 October 2005

snow is lis

lis = snow (Lhaesine pronunciation = LIHS) (noun) (LIS is Library and Information Science; Luxembourg Income Study; a first name; LIS is Locate in Scotland; last bit of Fleur-de-lis; LIS is Lightning Imaging Sensor; LIS is Life Imaging Services; means "read" in French; means "lily" in Spanish)