31 March 2006

ink is wule

wule = ink (Lhaesine pronunciation = WOOL) (noun) (some things Google found for "wule": an uncommon term; a last name that can be German or Chinese; slang for "rule" such as in phrase "wule da werld"; a user name; a dialect of Dagara language spoken in Burkina Faso; means "while" or will" in Middle English; a place in Pakistan)

This word has been changed. The Lhaesine word for "ink" is now "diras". This posting is no longer current.

30 March 2006

cat is mehe (revisited)

mehe = cat (Lhaesine pronunciation = MEE'h) (noun) (some things Google found for "mehe": a common term; a user name; means "manhood, mankind" in Estonian, book Õige Mehe Koda (1940, The House of a Righteous Man) by Karl Ristikivi; a hard rock/metal band from Norway; MEHE stands for Master of Education in Health Education at University of Houston; user names; MEHE stands for Ministry of Education and Higher Education in Lebanon; a short river in Lower Saxony, Germany; means "thin" in Basque; "me he" means "here" in Sinhala (transliterated), a language of Sri Lanka; means "ant-hill" in Ruguru, a language of Tanzania; means "me" in Umbrian, a dialect of modern Italian or a dead Italian language; a place in Pakistan)

This change is for the most part a spelling simplification. My previous Lhaesine word for "cat" was "meiya" which was pronounced nearly the same.

29 March 2006

tin is pexat (revisited)

pexat = tin (Lhaesine pronunciation = PEHKS-aht) (noun) (metal) (some things Google found for "pexat"; a rare term; user names; appears on several Russian webpages; pEXAT is part of several names in soybean genomics; appears on "Suck on this, spam bots")

The change was to add the "a".

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 This posting is no longer current.

28 March 2006

amethyst is murisaje

murisaje = amethyst (muh-RIH-sage) (noun) (semi-precious gemstone) (Google found nothing for "murisaje", a unique term)

27 March 2006

sharp is csahe

csahe = sharp (KSAY'h) (adjective) (some things Google found for "csahe": a rare term; several user names, notably a user that posts on Britney Spears sites; "chase" after being put through scrambilizer; mentioned on The Library of Babel and Suck on this Spambots; accidental combination of "CSA" and "he")

The letter "x", which is pronounced like "ks", is used in Lhaesine. If the spelling of this word was "xahe" it would have likely puzzled everyone, including myself. I opted to use the consonant combination "cs" instead. The "k" sound is represented by "c" in Lhaesine.

26 March 2006

wall is morh

morh = wall (Lhaesine pronunciation = MOHRH) (noun) (some things Google found for "morh": an uncommon term; MORH stands for Ministry of Defense of Republic of Croatia; "Khake Sar Beh Morh" is a 1977 movie from Iran; means something in Punjabi, "Jatt Jeona Morh" is a 1991 Punjabi movie and "Mohr" is a word in several Punjabi song titles; a last name, perhaps German or Czech in origin; user names; MORH stands for Montana Office of Rural Health; "Morh Kfarsghab" or "Morh Kfar Sghab" is a place in Lebanon which means "Winter Village"; there was a petrol bunk at Noida Morh near the Akshardham flyover in India; In Thai earthenware jars are called "Morh"; MORH Housing in California; Andheria Morh or Mehrouli is a place in New Delhi, India; Mohr is the name of an asteroid; MORH stands for March of Remembrance and Hope, which is for Holocaust education; Irish village Tulaigh Morh (pronounced "Tulley More") in 1998 movie Waking Ned Devine; means "bend, bent, meander" in Urdu (Transliterated); place "Morh Town" in Liberia)

This word has been revised. The new word for "wall" is "morha". This posting is no longer current.

25 March 2006

spider is teche

teche = spider (Lhaesine pronunciation = TEACH) (noun) (some things Google found for "teche": a very common term; Bayou Teche in Louisiana pronounced "tesh", unlike Lhaesine), setting for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline; antebellum historic house Shadows-on-the-Teche, Teche Federal Bank, Teche Electric Supply, Teche Regional Medical Center, Teche Theatre for the Performing Arts, and more, all in Louisiana; a last name; user name; means something in Bulgarian when transliterated, "Zhivotut si teche tiho..." is a 1988 Bulgarian movie; places in Colombia, Bulgaria, and France)

This word has been revised. The new word for "spider" is "tiche". This posting is no longer current.

24 March 2006

water is lor (redone)

lor = water (LORE) (noun) (some things Google found for "lor": a very, very common term; LOR is NYSE stock symbol for Lazard World Dividend & Income Fund, Inc.; "LOR" (Lots of Robots) is an animated short tale of creation; LOR stands for "Learning Object Repository" in information technologies; LOR-IN Business Resort & Spa, Central Java, Indonesia; LOR.TO is Canadian stock symbol for Lorus Therapeutics Inc.; Lor*Al Products Inc. makes machines to apply fertilizer; LOR-tech Systems Group of Canada does film services and media visual effects; a user name; LOR Manufacturing Company, Inc. produces wireless modems and controls; LOR lift-off resists; a last name; LOR stands for Lock Order Reversals in some computers; Lor-Lor-Ja is a distributor of Greek (fraternity, sorority) paraphernalia & items; Tee Lor Su is the highest waterfall in Thailand; Saar-Lor-Lux (Saarland-Lorraine-Luxembourg); means "feasible, realm" in Basque; means "thigh" in Danish (transliterated); means "rag" in Dutch; means "cousin" in Klingonese; means "dream, slumber" in Quenya, a J.R.R. Tolkien elf language; means "their" in Romanian; means "curd" in Turkish; places in Iran, Sudan, France, East Timor, and Armenia)

Simplified the Lhaesine word for "water".

23 March 2006

arm is ceram

ceram = arm (KEH-rahm) (noun) (some things Google found for "ceram": a common term; CERAM Sophia Antipolis is a European School of Business in France; an island in Indonesia, also called Seram, and a small sea; UK based CERAM information centre works with clients who are involved in ceramics and materials processing; Ceram Polymerik Ceramic Systems of Australia; CERAM stands for Centro de Reproducción Asistida de Marbella of Spain; German writer journalist C.W. Ceram; In Ceram, Ceram X, and Wol-Ceram are dental restoration products; CERAM stands for Comparative Environmental Risk Assessment Method)

22 March 2006

well is lhule

lhule = well (for water) (Lhaesine pronunciation = LHYOOL) (noun) (some things Google found for "lhule": an uncommon to rare term; a character in a game of the Imperial FarSpace Service in Foreven sector; a word in French which seems to refer to both beauty oil and auto lubricant; a user name; appears on "Suck on this spam bots")

21 March 2006

eight is ruxe (revisited)

ruxe = eight (Lhaesine pronunciation = ROOKS) (ajective, noun) (number) (some things Google found for "ruxe": an uncommon term; Ruxe-Ruxe is a punk-ish rock band from Galicia, part of Spain; a user name; "Ruxe'l Kem" is a Guatemalan Dance Group; in Venetian means "blackberry", a tannin-producing plant)

This is a change to correct my spelling. My previous spelling, "ruix", was bending my Lhaesine spelling rules. There was no change to the word itself.

20 March 2006

hand is rhun

rhun = hand (RHUN) (noun) (some things Google found for "rhun": an uncommon to common term; Sea of Rhûn in Tolkien's Middle-earth, also called the Inland Sea, and Rhûn means "east" in Sindarin; Rhun Hir, King of Gwynedd (died 568), son of Maelgwn; a Welsh masculine first name; Rhûn is a band from Argentina; Gaming Module for the Persistent World of Rhun; a last name, also surname "Le Rhun"; user names; Caer Rhun Hall in North Wales UK; Rhun mine and Rhun menhir in Brittany, France)

19 March 2006

five is aos (revisited)

aos = five (Lhaesine pronunciation = OWS) (adjective, noun) (number) (some things Google found for "aos": a very common term; AOS is the NYSE stick symbol for AO Smith Corp.; AOS is American Orchid Society; AOS is American Oriental Society; AOS Thermal Compounds company; AOS is American Otological Society; AOS is Alabama Ornithological Society; AOS is Australian Optical Society; AOS Group stands for Agent Oriented Software; AOS is American Orthodontic Society; AOS Web-Com, Incis a Internet Provider; AOS, Inc. is in remote communications technologies; AOS Technology Ltd of UK in optical sensing; part of the name of several computer virus; AOS is American phthalmological Society; AOS is an abbreviation meaning "all options stink"; AOS is Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; AOS stands for many more things; means "on the, to the" in Portuguese; "Aos" means "dew" in Urdu (Transliterated); a place in Spain)

My previous word for "five" had an odd consonant combination. New new word for "five" may have an unusual vowel combination, but it's allowed in Lhaesine.

18 March 2006

soft is pume (revisited)

pume = soft (Lhaesine pronunciation = PYOOM) (adjective) (some things Google found for "pume"; a indigenous group and language of Venezuela; PuMe is software for simulation of pine forests for forestry education; in English means a stint or small sandpiper; according to Urban dictionary means food eaten while tripping acid or shrooms that has absolutely no taste or texture; title of a 1993 Croatian short-short movie; a last name from the Congo and Czech republic; a South African feminine first name; a user name; places of geographic features in Equatorial Guinea, and Sierra Leone)

Shortened this word to one syllable.

This word has been revised. The new word for "soft" is "pon". This posting is no longer current.

17 March 2006

mountain is riyase (revisited)

riyase = mountain (Lhaesine pronunciation = RIH-yayse) (noun) (some things Google found for "riyase": a rare term; a Turkish word, or part of a word, likely related to "riyaset" which means "chairmanship, presidency" in Turkish; a last name of someone in India; phonetic spelling of the first name of a woman from Oman; a conjugation in present tense of Sanskrit verb "ri" which can mean "to slacken, release, emit, make go, and to detach from")

Changed one letter.

This word has been revised again. The new word for "mountain" is "rihas". This posting is no longer current.

15 March 2006

grape is sefe

sefe = grape (SEEF) (noun) (some things Google found for "sefe": an uncommon to common term; a last name, can be Samoan; SEFE stands for Secondary Education / Foundations of Education, college courses; user names; SEFE stands for the Finnish Association of Graduates in Economics and Business administration; "šéfe" (accent marks over "s" and first "e") means "governor" in Czech; SEFE stands for Standardization Evaluation Flight Examiner; SEFE stands for Sociedad Española de Fenomenología; a first name, can be Albanian; a misspelling of "safe"; in urban slang dictionary means "cool, heavy, tight"; a place in Mali)

14 March 2006

candle is micaln (redone)

micaln = candle (Lhaesine pronunciation = MIH-kaln) (some things Google found for "micaln": a very rare term; user name, can be spelled "MicalN" ; street name "Mica Ln" without the space)

My previous word for "candle", upon hindsight, didn't quite fit in Lhaesine.

This word has been revised. The word for "candle" is now "micla".

13 March 2006

key is uleur

uleur = key (Lhaesine pronunciation = uh-LEEOOR) (noun) (some things Google found for "uleur": an uncommon term; part of broken, mis-spaced, or hyphenated French word "couleur" which means "color"; part of French word "bruleur" which means "burner"; part of French word "douleur" which eans "pain")

This word has been redone. The new word for "key" is "nolde". This posting is no longer current.

12 March 2006

winter is sibun (revisited)

sibun = winter (Lhaesine pronunciation = SIH-buhn) (noun) (season) (some things Google found for "sibun": an uncommon term; a last name, notably blues guitarist Innes Sibun; a river in Belize; Baldy Sibun and Freetown Sibun are places in Belize; means "seven" in Anglo-Saxon and Gothic; a place in Iran)

This word has been revised. The current word for "winter" is "sibor". This posting is no longer current.

11 March 2006

rabbit is hidane

hidane = rabbit (Lhaesine pronunciation = HIH-dayne) (noun) (animal) (some things Google found for "hidane": an uncommon term; a user name; a last name; something in Turkish, maybe a name; means "fire seed, live coals, or ashes" in Japanese; Hidane is a Japanese DJ club band; female anime-like character Katyn Hidane on Firefly Cross; Hidane region in Saada province of Yemen; means "to pass" in conlang language Tigerian)

This word has been given new definition. The Lhaesine word for "rabbit" is now "parowe". This posting is no longer current.

10 March 2006

gate is bahit (revisited)

bahit = gate (Lhaesine pronunciation = BAH-hiht) (noun) (some things Google found for "bahit": an uncommon term; a last name, maybe Turkish; a user name; Bahit-Kompot are a Russian rock band; a first name, could be Kazakh, Uzbek, and Albanian; something in Yiddish; something in Uygur; the legendary (Arabaian Nights?) bahit stone pulls ships apart; places in Niger, Pakistan, Philippines, and Ethiopia)

Modified the middle of this word. Shortened it by one letter. My previous word didn't quite seem right for Lhaesine.

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

09 March 2006

backward is iqwara

iqwara = backward or behind (Lhaesine pronunciation = ih-KWAH-ruh) (adjective and adverb) (some things Google found for "iqwara": a rare term; Iqwara has Drum 'n Bass CD El Africa Micro Dot records from South Africa; in modern Xhosa name for extinct zebra-like quagga, has a clicking "q"; "Africa T iQwara" is a type of font; name of a demon on a cryptic Invocation of the Alphabet magick page of Callisto Radiant)

This word has been revised. The new word for "backward" is "icwara". This posting is no longer current.

08 March 2006

forward is bixara

bixara = forward or front (biks-AH-ruh) (adjective and adverb) (rare term in Google; word I couldn't translate on some Brazilian and Portuguese pages, may be slang but probably not too crude; perhaps a word in a Cambodian language; term used with computers in Kurdish; a last name)

07 March 2006

flower is talise (revisited)

talise = flower (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAH-lice) (noun) (some things Google found for "talis": an uncommon term; a feminine first name of Native American Indian origin meaning "lovely water", notably soprano singer Talise Trevigne; a language of Solomon Islands; Talise Marine Sanctuary, Indonesia; name of a female half-elf character; Talise Beach is located near Palu in Central Sulawesi; TALISE stands for Two-photon Absorption Laser-Induced Stimulated Emission; Alabama Mississippian period Indians of the Talise Chiefdom; places or geographic features in Solomon Islands, Indonesia, and Vanuatu)

Changed one letter, "c" to "s", so that my spelling fits with my desired pronunciation.

This word has been revised again. The new word for "flower" is "talis". This posting is no longer current.

06 March 2006

snake is wuira

wuira = snake (Lhaesine proniciation = WYOO-ruh) (noun) (some things Google found for "wuira": a rare term; name of a hip hop and electronica track by Lucky.R; a Spanish language page says something like "wuira" is a "secret current furrowing to the Earth bottom" to the medieval alchemists; a user name; "Wuira" is part of name of "God come from the sea" to Northern Chile aborigines of Pica; appears on "Suck on this, spam bots")

This word has been revised. The new word for "snake" is "vade". This posting is no longer current.

05 March 2006

garden is merign

merign = garden (Lhaesine pronunciation = MAH-rihgn) (noun) (some things Google found for "merign": a rare term Kyriad Prestige Bordeaux Merign Hotel in Merignac, France; user name; name of a male character in a piece of Slayers fan fiction; misspelling of "Merjin" original owner of CWShredder anti-spyware program; a Dutch feminine first name; a last name)

This word has been slightly revised. The word for "garden" is now "merigen". This posting is no longer current.

04 March 2006

lead is ravis

ravis = lead (Lhaesine pronunciation = RAH-vis) (noun) (metal) (common term in Google; a last name, perhaps German; Ravis Custom Tailors of Thailand; a user name; RAVIS is a computer aided dispatch system from the Netherlands; a brand of radar visualization software from Romania; Ravis Inn in Chennai, India provides guest house facilities; a first name; name of a male character in fantasy book The Barbed Coil by J.V. Jones; means "delighted" in French)

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

I have redefined "ravis" in Lhaesine as "hammer".

03 March 2006

boat is cauhel

cauhel = boat (Lhaesine pronunciation = KAAW-hel) (noun) (some things Google found for "cauhel": s very rare term; "cauhel tetlapololti" means "for indeed it causes turmoil" in Nahuatl, which is a phrase from an Aztec incantation; seems to be a misspelling of the last name Caughel)

This word has been revised. The word for "boat" is now "cohal". This posting is no longer current.

02 March 2006

dragon is asoiul

asoiul = dragon (Lhaesine pronunciation = ah-SOY-uhl) (noun) (some things Google found for "asoiul": very rare term in Google, two results; appears on a garbled PDF document; on "Suck on this, spam bots")

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

01 March 2006

evil is faelx

faelx = evil (Lhaeine pronunciation = FAWLKS) (adjective and noun) (some things Google found for "faelx": a rare term; perhaps something in Brazilian Portuguese but I couldn't translate it; appears on gobbledygook pages and on "Suck on this, spam bots"; a user name)

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