29 December 2011

away is fure

fure = away (Lhaesine pronunciation = FOOR) (adverb) (some things Google found for "fure": a last name, notably American singer-songwriter Tret Fure; Fure fure shojo (English title: Cheer Cheer Cheer!) is a 2008 Japanese comedy; Fure Financial Corporation; form of the Latin noun "fur" meaning "a thief"; means "steal" in Romanian; means "furrow" in Norwegian; the name of places in Norway and Ghana)

25 December 2011

down is surd (revisited)

surd = down (Lhaesine pronunciation = SUHRD) (adverb) (Some things Google found for "surd": a common term; an uncommon last name; in mathematics an nth root that you can't simplify or in otherwords is an irrational number; in linguistics a voiceless consonant; in Flash Gordon name of a small artificial moon of the fictional planet Mongo; title of a song by Babes in Toyland; surd evil or natural evil for which no agent is morally responsible; "deaf" in Romanian; name of a village in Hungary)

My previous word for "down" was "suril".

21 December 2011

up is vel (revisited)

vel = up (Lhaesine pronunciation = VEL) (adverb) (Some things Google found for "vel": a very common term; Vel is the title of a 2007 Tamil action-drama film; a uncommon last name; an unusual first name that can be feminine; Renault Vel Satis (2001-2009) was an executive car; means "a veil" in Albanian and Catalan; means "a skin, hide; a sheet (of paper)" in Dutch; means "well" in Icelandic; means "either, or" in Latin; means "seven" in Volapük; The Vel is the divine spear of the Hindu Deity Murugan; name of several rivers in northwest Russia; name of places in Azerbaijan, Nigeria and Puerto Rico)

My previous word for "up" was "velis". I shortened this word.

17 December 2011

of is ae (revisited)

ae = of (Lhaeinse pronunciation = AW) (preposition) (some things Google found for "ae": a very very common term; ae is an acronym for American Eagle Outfitters; .ae is the Internet country code for United Arab Emirates; the ae ligature (æ) originally representing a Latin diphthong which in Old English is traditionally named the letter ash; Æ or æ is a letter in the alphabets of Danish, Faroese, Norwegian and Icelandic; Titan A.E. (2000) is an American animated post-apocalyptic science fiction film; AE is an acronym for After Effects software from Adobe; A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar and poet; A. E. Stallings is an American poet and translator; A. E. van Vogt was a Canadian-born science fiction author; an unusual last name; means liver in Irish; means one in Scots; name of a village in Scotland)

My previous Lhaesine word for "of" was "aet". I'm shortening the word by one letter.

13 December 2011

cover is maisol

maisol = cover (Lhaesine pronunciation = MAY-sawl) (noun) (some things Google found for "maisol": an uncommon term; Maisol Media of Atlanta; Maisol fashion studio of Berlin; Mai-Sol is a relationship service in Spain; a rare feminine first name which is possibly a version of more common name Marisol; user names; a rare last name; seems to mean "May sun" in Norwegian)

09 December 2011

cricket is hocede

hocede = cricket (Lhaesine pronunciation = HAW-keed) (insect) (noun) (some things Google found for "hocede"; an rare last name that can be French; user names; Sarl Optique Hocede is a company in northern France; in Old English similar word "hóced" means "curved, shaped like a hook")

Who knows, maybe someday I might need a word for this chirping insect. Crickets are harmless, but I'd rather hear them than encounter them.

05 December 2011

canvas is nusran

nusran = canvas (Lhaesine pronunciation = NUH-srahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "nusran": an uncommon term; a masculine first name notably Albanian musician Nusran Fera; user names; a rare last name)

Canvas is an extremely heavy-duty plain-woven fabric. It is used for making sails, tents, backpacks, and painting surfaces for artists. Canvas can be used to make handbags and shoes.

01 December 2011

when is fim (revisited)

fim = when (Lhaesine pronunciation = FIHM) (adverb) (some things Google found for "fim": an uncommon term; a last name; FIM is an acronym for Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (International Motorcycling Federation); The US Military designation for a shoulder-launched missile such as FIM-92 Stinger and the FIM-43 Redeye; FIM is an acronym for Forefront Identity Manager which is a software product; FIM Stores of Chicago sell Patio Furniture and Game Room products; MLP FiM is a acronym for My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic; FIM was the currency code for the Finnish markka which was the currency of Finland from 1860 until 2002 when it was replaced by the euro; means "end" in Portuguese; Fim Kassar is a place in Pakistan; Fim de Vila is a place in Portugal; Fim do Campo and Fim do Pasto are places in Brazil)

My previous Lhaesine word for "when" was "firen".

29 November 2011

rough is brult

brult = rough (Lhaesine pronunciation = BRUHLT) (adjective) (some things Google found for "brult": an uncommon term; a rare last name; Brult School (historical) in northeast Wisconsin; in the Star Wars universe Brult Kiais was a Muun who lived during the time of the Galactic Civil War; in Dutch several conjugations of the verb "to roar")

25 November 2011

mattress is tarepe

tarepe = mattress (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAH-reep) (noun) (some things Google found for "tarepe": an uncommon to rare term; a rare last name that can be Filipino; Tarepe stream in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand; El Tarepe is a place in the state of Michoacan in Mexico)

I admit that mattress is a somewhat odd word to define. This is a word that appears in a paragraph I'm attempting to translate to Lhaesine.

21 November 2011

dawn is zifa

zifa = dawn (Lhaesine pronunciation = ZIH-fuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "zifa": an uncommon term; Zifa or ZFA is an acronym for Zimbabwe Football Association; ZIFA is an acronym for Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement; an unusual feminine first name that can be Bosnian or a unusual masculine first name that can be African; Zifa is a modern African pop music artist; a rare last name; name of places in Malawi)

17 November 2011

the (singular) is se (revisited)

se = the (Lhaesine pronunciation = seh) (definite article singular) (some things Google found for "se": a very common term; .se is the Internet country code for Sweden; "per se" is a Latin phrase meaning "in itself"; SE is the compass point midway between south and east; Se is the symbol for chemical element Selenium; a last name; means all reflexive pronouns in Czech and Serbo-Croatian; means "see" in Danish; means "if" in Esperanto; means pronoun "it" in Finnish; means third-person reflexive and reciprocal pronouns in French, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish and Interlingua; means "neither" in Hungarian; means "if; whether; if only" in Italian; means "the; that, those; he, it, that" in Old English; means "to see" in Swedish; Sé is the name of a town in Hungary; Sè is the name of a places in Benin)

My previous Lhaesine word for "the" was "sa". I redefined "sa" as word for "the (plural)".

13 November 2011

dream is solun (revisited)

solun = dream (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAW-luhn) (noun) (some things Google found for "solun": a common term; name for the city of Thessaloniki in several South Slavic languages; a rare last name; a rare first name; Solun Road in Indianapolis; user names; Solun Fashion of Garland, Texas; Solun - The Pocket Planetarium astronomy software; name of a city in the Inner Mongolia region of China; name of a place in Bosnia & Herzegovina)

My previous Lhaesine word for "dream" was "saeln". This is a small change.

09 November 2011

but is sha

sha = but (Lhaesine pronunciation = SHUH) (conjunction, preposition, adverb) (some things Google found for "sha": a very common term; SHA is an acronym for Secure Hash Algorithm in cryptography; a last name; an uncommon feminine first name; user names; SHA is the IATA airport code for Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport; Sha Na Na is an American 50s-style rock and roll group; sha (Ш, ш) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet roughly equivalent to sh in English; Tsim Sha Tsui is an area in Kowloon, Hong Kong; Sha Tin district in the New Territories, Hong Kong; name of places in Pakistan, Rwanda, Cyprus and Congo)

05 November 2011

whole is etola

etola = whole (Lhaesine pronunciation = eh-TAW-luh) (adjective) (somethings Google found for "etola": an uncomon term; Etola Group is a Finnish industrial products and supplies conglomerate; an unusual generally feminine first name; a rare last name; user names; Etola Studio Inc in the Chicago area; means "stole (ladies shawl)" in Polish; name of a places in Finland and Tennessee)

This is a word that I considered, then rejected, for Miresua, my Basque-Finnish inspired conlang. Not all Miresua words work in Lhaesine because of differing rules.

01 November 2011

large is saeth

saeth = large (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAAWTH) (adjective) (some things Google found for "saeth": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; user names; Saeth (or Sæth) is name of an unsigned rock band; an unusual feminine first name of Welsh origin in which the "ae" is likely pronounced like "eye"; Saeth’s Roleplaying Guides; name of several gaming characters; means "arrow, dart" in Welsh; Bryn Saeth (Hill of the Arrow) is the name of a place in Wales)

I already have a Lhaesine word defined for big. I know that I may not truly need a word for large. Big and large are nearly interchangable in meaning.

29 October 2011

up is velis

velis = up (Lhaesine pronunciation = VEH-lihss) (adverb) (some things Google found for "velis": a very common term; a last name; Velis Vel is the name of a card of the Planechase expansion of Magic: the Gathering; Velis Associates Inc of New York sells elevator cabs; name of a male character in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings; Aqua Velis Water Park in southern Spain; means sailed in Esperanto; in Latin second-person singular present active subjunctive of the verb volo meaning to wish or to want; name of places in Czech Republic, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Turkey)

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

25 October 2011

pear is anca

anca = pear (Lhaesine pronunciation = AHNK-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "anca": a common term; ANCA is an acronym for Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody; ANCA Pty Ltd is an Australian CNC grinding machines company; ANCA is an acronym for Armenian National Commitee of America; a Romanian feminine first name; means "hip" in Italian; means "eagle" in Quechua; name of places in Spain and Indonesia)

21 October 2011

image is neibas

neibas = image (Lhaesine pronunciation = NEE-bahss) (noun) (some things Google found for "neibas": a rare term; user names; Neibas Supermarket in Nairobi, Kenya; a rare last name; a bad misspelling or slang term for "neighbors"; similarly named Neiba is a city in the Dominican Republic)

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

17 October 2011

cave is secin

secin = cave (Lhaesine pronunciation = SEH-kihn) (noun) (some things Google found for "secin": an uncommon term; a rare last name; Secin SA of Argentina produces industrial machinery and equipment; a rare first name that can be masculine; user names; a bad misspelling of "second"; similar word "seçin" means "choose" in Turkish, note that ç in Turkish is pronounced as ch)

13 October 2011

glass is anere (revisited)

anere = glass (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-neer) (noun) (some things Google found for "anere": an uncommon term; user names; an unusual last name; a rare first name that can be feminine; World of Warcraft character name; in Greek (transliterated) "anere" means "adult"; similar word "andere" means "other, different" in German)

My previous Lhaesine word for "glass" was "aneira". I shortened and simplified that word by dropping the final syllable.

09 October 2011

knife is aneg (revisited)

aneg = knife (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-nehg) (noun) (some things Google found for "aneg": an uncommon term; ANEG is an acrouym for Aéroclub National des Electriciens et Gaziers (Aeroclub National Electric and Gas) of France; user names; a rare first name that can be feminine; a rare last name; a World of Warcraft character name; similar word "anegar" means "to flood, to drown" in Spanish; name of a place in the Philippines; Bled Rous el Aneg is a place in Algeria)

My previous Lhaesine word for knife was anege. Although I liked the spelling of the old word, I prefer the pronunciation of the new word. This change makes the final vowel short, instead of long.

05 October 2011

tongue is paima

paima = tongue (Lhaesine pronunciation = PAY-muh) (noun) (some things Google found for "paima": an uncommon to common term; PAIMA stands for Pan American International Movers Association; Behr Paima is a hydrographic survey and research vessel of Pakistan; a last name that can be Peruvian; PAIMA stands for Pakistan-Afghanistan Independent Media Association; Paima is the name of places in Nigeria, Malawi, and the Gambia)

Another new word.

01 October 2011

you (singular) is gen

gen = you (singular) (Lhaesine pronunciation = GEN not JEN) (pronoun) (some things Google found for "gen": a very very common term; Gen X (Generation X) is the generation born after the post–World War II baby boom which generally means those born between 1965 and 1980; Gen Con is a gaming convention; GEN is an acronym for Global Ecovillage Network; Gen is an online puzzle & skill game; POWER-GEN International is a conference; Gen is a video game character from the Street Fighter series; Gen (2006) is Turkish horror film; Gen is a last name; gen can be the abbreviation for English words gender, general, generally, generation, genitive and genus; Gen means "gene" in Catalan, Czech, Dutch, Japanese (transliterated), Polish, Spanish and Swedish; "gén" means "still, yet; again further" in Old English; means "smile, laugh" in Old Irish; means "attractive; pleasing; nice; fair" in Old Provençal; means "gender; type, sort" in Romanian; Gen is the name of places in the Dominican Republic and Liberia)

This is a very common word I hadn't yet defined in Lhaesine.

This word has been revised. The Lhaesine word for "you (singular)" is now "ged". This posting is no longer current.

29 September 2011

flame is hoira

hoira = flame (Lhaesine pronunciation = HOY-ruh) (noun) (some things Google found for "hoira": an uncommon term; a feminine first name that can be Filipino; user names; a last name; name of a WoW gaming character; Jabal Hoira Hedi is a mountain in Yemen)

This is a new Lhaesine word. I'm reutilizing a former word from my other conlang, Miresua, which previously meant "sand".

25 September 2011

deep is sorne (revisited)

sorne = deep (Lhaesine pronunciation = SOHRN) (adjective) (some things Google found for "sorne": an uncommon term; SORNE is an alternative music project/artist from Austin; Sorne Hill Wind Farm in Ireland; an uncommon last name; user names; Domaine and Golf du Val de Sorne in eastern France; Sorne Co. Ltd of South Korea; a Basque feminine first name; a tributary of the Birs (French: Birse) river in Switzerland; Messia-sur-Sorne is a town in eastern France)

My previous Lhaesine word for "deep" was "soara". This modification is because I'd rather not have a word for deep that looks like the word soar, which means rise or fly upwards.

21 September 2011

fog is hes (revisited)

hes = fog (Lhaesine pronunciation = HESS) (noun) (some things Google found for "hes": a very common term; a misspelling of "he's"; a last name; NYSE stock symbol for Hess Corporation which is in the Oil & Gas industry; HES stands for Hanchett Entry Systems Inc. which sells integrated access control products; The Heinkel HeS 011 was an advanced World War II jet engine; an alternate spelling for Isis, a goddess in Egyptian mythology; in Dutch "hes" means "a short, protective type of shirt, typically worn by manual laborers")

My previous Lhaesine word for "fog" was "hese". I dropped the final e, which changes the vowel from long to short.

17 September 2011

pink is beshe (revisited)

beshe = pink (Lhaesine pronunciation = BEESH) (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "beshe": a common term; Beshe Wigs for ebony hair styles of Moonachie, NJ; user names; an unusual last name; when transliterated a form of the Bulgarian verb to be; Beshe or Beshē is the name of a place in Ethiopia; Beshe or Beshé is the name of a place in New Caledonia)

My previous Lhaesine word for "pink" was "besh". Because I'm no longer using the long e, "ee", sound in my word for yellow, I decided to use it in my word for pink.

13 September 2011

yellow is pethas (revisited)

pethas = yellow (Lhaesine pronunciation = PETH-ahce) (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "pethas": an uncommon term; plural of petha which is a candied ash gourd candy from North India; user names; a rare last name; Pethas Ltd is a company in Belgium that sells fertilizer for agricultural use; can be phrase "pet has" lacking the space between the words)

My previous Lhaesine word for "yellow" was "pethe", which is pronounced PEETH. Although the word sounds somewhat like peach, I didn't like that it also sounds like pee and peed, informal terms for urination, which is not good for a word for yellow. I'll redefine "pethe" as something else later.

09 September 2011

green is daela (revisited)

daela = green (Lhaesine pronunciation = DAAW-luh) (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "daela": an uncommon term; a rare feminine first name, notably Nevada politician Daela Gibson; name of a angular font design; Children of Daela are a race of Elemental beings in the fiction of self-published novelist Betsy McCall; an ensemble of dance performers from NYC; user names; a rare last name; name of a stream in Cote d'Ivoire).

Yes, I'm changing the word for green again. I do change my mind. Somehow the previous Lhaesine word for "green", which was "daeva", was not quite right.

05 September 2011

white is shaye (revisited)

shaye = white (Lhaesine pronunciation = SHAY'y) (some things Google found for "shaye": an uncommon term; Shaye was a Canadian pop group in the 00's; an uncommon last name; a rare first name of Irish origin that can be feminine or masculine which is a variant of Shea; Shaye' or Shayeh is a place in Iran)

My previous Lhaesine word for "white" was "saye". I added the H.

01 September 2011

dagger is tefe (revisited)

tefe = dagger (Lhaesine pronunciation = TEEF) (noun) (Some things Google found for "tefe": a common term; Tefé (sometimes Tefe) is a city in the Amazonas state of Brazil; Tefé Holland is a fictional character in the DC Comics universe who is the daughter of Swamp Thing; a rare first name that can be masculine; a rare last name; TEFE is an acronym for Time-Efficient Approach to Feature Extraction in Data Mining)

My previous Lhaesine word for "dagger" was "teifa", pronounced "TEE-fuh". I dropped the final a, making this word one syllable, which is a smaller change than it first appears. Note that "daggers", plural, is "teifur".

25 August 2011

mark is sita

sita = mark (Lhaesine pronunciation = SIH-tuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "sita: a very common term; Sita is the wife of Rama in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana and a Hindu deity; Sita Sings the Blues is a controversial award winning 2008 animated feature film with events from the Ramayana; SITA is a air transport IT company; SITA World Tours; an uncommon last name; Sita is a Dutch pop singer; means to sit in Faroese; in Italian the feminine form of situated, located; name of cities in Congo, Philippines, Pakistan, Indonesia, China, Guinea, Chad and Romania)

This is the word for a visible indication made on a surface, or a distinguishing symbol.

17 August 2011

vine is rele

rele = vine (Lhaesine pronunciation = REEL) (noun) (some things Google found for "rele": a very common term; an unusual last name; The Rele River is a small river in the Biobío Region of Chile; Relehimana Miya De Lacroa or Princess Rele is a character in Japanese anime Superior Defender Gundam Force; user names; a bad misspelling or slangy misspelling of really; means (electronics) relay in Finnish; conjugations of the verb to reread in Galician; means to be called in Haitian Creole; neuter plural nominative form of rău which means "bad, wrong" in Romanian)

01 August 2011

sheet is fursa

fursa = sheet (Lhaesine pronunciation = FURSS-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "fursa": an uncommon term; Saint Fursa (aka Saint Fursey) was an Irish monk who died in 650 who did much to establish Christianity throughout the British Isles; Fursa Alternative Strategies LLC of New York; Fursa FX is a Islamic Forex trading firm; an unusual last name; user names; means "opportunity, chance for advancement, progress or profit" in Swahili; "fursa saeeda" means "nice to meet you" in Arabic (transliterated); name of a city in Bangladesh)

25 July 2011

green is daeva (revisited)

daeva = green (Lhaesine pronunciation = DAAH-vuh) (color) (adjective) (some things Google found for "daeva": a very common term; Avestan language (Zoroastrian) term for a supernatural entity with disagreeable characteristics; aesma daeva is a USA symphonic metal band; in the role playing game Vampire: The Requiem the Daeva are a vampire clan; a Daeva is a Demi-God in the Aion game universe)

My previous Lhaesine word for "green" was "vaela". I considered making this word "vaeda", but that word was too close to the Spanish word for green, verde.

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

17 July 2011

shop is pava (revisited)

pava = shop (Lhaesine pronunciation = PAH-vuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "pava": a common term; PAVA spray is a personal irritant incapacitant used by British police; PAVA is an acronym for Pacific American Volunteer Association; PAVA is an acronym for Professional Association of Visual Artists of Tampa Bay; an uncommon last name; the traditional Puerto Rican straw hat; name of a city in ancient India which Buddha visited during his last journey; name of city in Romania)

My previous Lhaesine word for "shop" was "dashar".

09 July 2011

in is ic (revisited)

ic = in (Lhaesine pronunciation = IHK) (preposition, adverb) (some things Google found for "ic": a very common term; IC stands for Intergrated Circuit; IC is an acronym for Interstitial Cystitis or Painful Bladder Syndrome; in English -ic is a suffix used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning of or pertaining to; i.c. is shorthand for Latin in casu which means in this case; a rare last name; Internet slang for I See; similar iċ is an old English pronoun; ic means wedge in Romanian)

My previous word for "in" was "ir". I decided to change this word because similar Lhaesine word "ur" means "from".

09 June 2011

sound is andin (revisited)

andin = sound (Lhaesine pronunciation = AHND-ihn) (noun) (auditory effect, something heard) (some things Google found for "andin": an uncommon term; Andin International is a jewelry manufacturer and wholesaler; an uncommon masculine first name; an uncommon last name; means "Andean" in French; name of a city in Ethiopia and a village in Burma)

My previous Lhaesine word for "sound" was "aendin". A small change.

01 June 2011

friend is paxa (revisited)

paxa = friend (Lhaesine pronunciation = PAHKS-uh)(noun)(some things Google found for "paxa": an uncommon term; user names; an unusual last name; PAXA is a stock symbol on NGM (Nordic Growth Market) for Panaxia Security AB; Paxa bench at Swedish company Nola; Paxa Punch is a skater with the Denver Roller Dolls and an item in Dragon Quest V; Paxa is a Danish IT company; means "mosquito" in Uyghur (Latin script))

My previous Lhaesine word for "friend" was "paexa". I'm dropping a letter to avoid having a pronunciation similar to pox.

17 May 2011

for is ris

ris = for (Lhaesine pronunciation = RIHS or RISS) (preposition) (Some things Google found for "ris": a very common term; a last name; RISMedia in Real Estate Information Systems; RIS is an upscale cafe in Washington DC; RIS is an acronym for Remote Installation Services; RIS is an acronym for Radio Information Service which is a reading service for people who are visually impaired; RIS is an acronym for Radiology Information System; means "rice" in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish; means "reef, sweetbread" in French; means "attic or garret" in Icelandic; means "lynx" in Croatian and Slovene; means "pattern, motif" in Tibetan transliterated)); name of cities in Norway, France, Denmark, Somalia and Sweden)

09 May 2011

on is oth (revisited)

oth = on (Lhaesine pronunciation = AWTH) (on top of) (preposition) (Some things Google found for "oth": a very common term; OTH is an acronym for teenage TV drama One Tree Hill; a last name; Christian OTH studio wedding photographers; OTH is the airport code for Southwest Oregon Regional Airport formerly known as North Bend Municipal Airport; OTH is an acronym for Over The Horizon radar)

My previous Lhaesine word for "on (on top of)" was foth. I shortened the word by a letter.

01 May 2011

step is pale

pale = step (Lhaesine pronunciation = PALE) (noun) (some things Google found for "pale": a common term; a last name; means "light in color" or "one of the stakes of a palisade" or "a territory having certain bounds" in English; means "visage, countenance" in Estonian; means "blade" in French; means "shovels" in Italian; name of cities in India, Tanzania, Burma, Cuba, Guinea, Italy, Hungary, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and United Kingdom)

25 April 2011

glow is lemel

lemel = glow (Lhaesine pronunciation = LEH-mehl) (noun) (some things Google found for "lemel": an uncommon term; a last name, notably Nathalie Lemel (1826-1921) a French militant anarchist and feminist, and Gary LeMel a jazz performer and music industry executive; Lemel Homes Inc. in southeastern Wisconsin; user names; means "remove" in Breton; name of a city in the Netherlands)

17 April 2011

metal is ruvas

ruvas = metal (Lhaesine pronunciation = RUH-vahs) (noun, adjective) (some things Google found for "ruvas": an uncommon term; Ruvas Forest in Nintendo DS game Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia; Ruvas solar system in multiplayer game EVE Online; conjugations of the Swedish verb ruva which means "to brood (to keep an egg warm)"; an unusual last name, similar last name Rouvas; user names; As Ruvas beach on A Illa de Arousa in northwest Spain)

09 April 2011

roof is aret

aret = roof (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-reht) (noun) (Some things Google found for "aret": a common term; ARET.PK is the stock symbol for Arête Industries Inc.; user names; ARET is an acronym for Accelerated Reduction / Elimination of Toxics which was a Canadian program in the 1990s; a unusual first name which is usually masculine; Året Runt (Year-round) is a Swedish weekly magazine; Aret Khwar is a city in Afghanistan)

01 April 2011

color is surca

surca = color (Lhaesine pronunciation = SURK-uh) (noun) (Some things Google found for "surca": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; means "heart" in Bulgarian (transliterated); in Spanlish surca is conjugations of the Spanish verb surcar meaning "to plow" which also can mean "crosses or traverses"; means "abrasive mark" in Corsican; Surca Vinto is a city in Bolivia)

25 March 2011

board is bisa

bisa = board (Lhaesine pronunciation = BIH-suh) (noun) (some things Google found for "bisa": a very common term; BISA is an acronym for Bank Insurance & Securities Association; BISA stands for Black Women In Sisterhood for Action; BISA is an acronym for Battlefield Information System Application; BISA stands for British International Studies Association; BISA is an acronym for British International Spa Association; BISA stands for Bicycle Institute of South Australia; BISA is an acronym for Berkeley Indonesian Student Association; Banco BISA SA of Bolivia; an uncommon last name; an unusual feminine first name; means "visa" in Basque; means "can, be able" and "poison" in Indonesian; means "encounters" in Portuguese; name of cities in Nigeria, Ghana, Malawi and Pakistan)

09 March 2011

pocket is acode

acode = pocket (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-COHD) (noun) (some things Google found for "acode": a very common term; ACODE is an acronym for Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment of Uganda; ACODE is an acronym for the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning; an unusual last name; Acode is a Brazilian genre song title by Sergio Mendes; user names; Acode Active is a clothing company; a conjugation of the Portuguese verb "acudir" which means "to go to aid, to attend to")

I'm redefining "acode" as "pocket". Some time ago, "acode" was defined as "yellow".

05 March 2011

carbon is forant

forant = carbon (Lhaesine pronunciation = FAW-rahnt) (some things Google found for "forant": an uncommon term; a last name; Café Forant in NYC; Lac Forant in southern Quebec, Canada; present participle of French verb meaning to bore, to drill)

01 March 2011

ear is cobe (revisited)

cobe = ear (Lhaesine pronunciation = COAB, rhymes with lobe) (noun) (Some things Google found for "cobe": a very common term; COBE is an acronym for Cosmic Background Explorer which was a USA satellite; a last name; an unusual masucline first name; COBE Architects of Denmark; COBE Laboratories Inc. in medical supplies; COBE is an acronym for College Of Business and Economics; In French cobe means waterbuck which is a kind of antelope; name of cities in Bosnia & Herzegovina and Brazil)

My previous Lhaesine word for ear was cose.

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

25 February 2011

dust is noum

noum = dust (Lhaesine pronunciation = NOOM) (noun) (Some things Google found for "noum": an uncommon term; a rare last name; similar Nouméa is the capital city of the French territory of New Caledonia; Noum Co. is a Minneapolis wholesale giftware company; means "sleep" in Arabic (transliterated); Noum en Nass is a place in Algeria)

21 February 2011

wire is hach

hach = wire (Lhaesine pronunciation = HAHCH or hatch) (noun) (Some things Google found for "hach": a very common term; a last name; Hach Company (pronounced "hawk") in water quality testing; Hach Student Life Center at Northwood University in Michigan; Hach Hall at Iowa State University; Abhai of Hach is a saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church; in German "hach" is an interjection meaning "oh!"; name of a city in Germany)

17 February 2011

guard is hult

hult = guard (Lhaesine pronunciation = HUHLT) (noun) (Some things Google found for "hult": a very common term; a common last name; Hult International Business School; Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon; forms of the Dutch verb hullen meaning to wrap; In Swedish a spelling variant of holt which means an area of woodland or grove, and a form of the Swedish adjective huld meaning "faithful, loyal"; name of numerous towns in cities in Sweden)

13 February 2011

lead is burc (revisited)

burc = lead (Lhaesine pronunciation = BURK) (metal) (Some things Google found for "burc": a common term; a first name that can be masculine and Turkish; Burc Beach near Istanbul; BURC is an acronym for Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre; Burç FM radio of Turkey; an unusual last name; Burc College in Australia; means "town, city" in Anglo-Norman; similar word burç means "zodiac, horoscope; tower" in Turkish; similar Burç is the name of cities in Turkey)

I majorly changed this word. My previous word for "lead" was "rudas".

09 February 2011

brass is tayen (revisited)

tayen = brass (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAH-yehn) (metal alloy) (Some things Google found for "tayen": an uncommon term; a Native Ameican feminine first name which means new moon; an uncommon last name; user names; TAYEN is an acronum for Tanzania Youth Environmental Network; Tayen Park Healing Retreat, Clare, South Australia)

My previous Lhaesine word for "brass" was "taiya".

Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc. It is often used as decoration and for coins. In antiquity, polished brass was often used as a mirror.

05 February 2011

silver is tirsa (revisited)

tirsa = silver (Lhaesine pronunciation = TIHRS-uh) (metal) (Some things Google found for "tirsa": an uncommon term; a feminine Icelandic first name; similar Tirzah is a Biblical feminine first name derived from the Hebrew meaning "pleasant"; TIRSA is an acronym for Title Insurance Rate Service Association of the State of New York; a genus of moths of the Crambidae family; an unusual last name; in the Star Wars universe a planet and system of the Outer Rim Territories; stipa tirsa is a species of perennial grass native to Europe and temperate Asia; name of cities in Egypt, Nigeria, and Romania)

My previous Lhaesine word for "silver" was "tirsar". A small change.

01 February 2011

iron is hiud (revisited)

hiud = iron (Lhaesine pronunciation = HYOOD) (metal) (Some things Google found for "hiud": an uncommon term; an unusual last name; user names; a misspelling of HUD as in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)

My previous Lhaesine word for "iron" was "hiun".

29 January 2011

tight is ohran

ohran = tight (Lhaesine pronunciation = AW-rrahn) (adjective) (some things Google found for "ohran": an uncommon term; a last name; a masculine first name that can be Turkish; Ohran Viper and Ohran Yeti are cards in Magic the Gathering for a snow creatures; in Finnish ohran is forms of the noun ohra which means barley)

21 January 2011

open is sepra

sepra = open (Lhaesine pronunciation = SEH-pruh) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "sepra": an uncommon term; SEPRA is the former acronym for a unit of the French Space Agency which investigated unidentified aerospace phenomena such as UFO sightings; SEPRA is an acronym for Southeast Pug Rescue & Adoption; SEPRA is an acronym for Scottish Egg Producer Retailers' Association; SEPRA was a prolific architectural firm of Argentina; Sepra is a biosurgical product; an unusual last name; a rare first name)

17 January 2011

heavy is chofe

chofe = heavy (Lhaesine pronunciation = CHOAF) (adjective) (Some things Google found for "chofe": a common term; a unusual first name or nickname which is usually masculine; user names; means "to warm" in Haitian Creole; a rare last name; Chofe (aka Chohi) is the name of a city in Nigeria)

09 January 2011

fence is efra

efra = fence (Lhaesine pronunciation = EH-fruh) (noun) (Some things Google found for "efra": a common term; an uncommon first name that is often feminine; a rare last name; user names; EFRA is an acronym for European Federation of Radio-operated Model Automobiles; EFRA is an acrnym for European Flame Retardants Association; name of a mountainous village in Syria; first portion of the name of a handful of vilages in Iceland)

05 January 2011

smooth is sofel

sofel = smooth (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAW-fehl) (adjective) (some things Google found for "sofel": an uncommon term; SOFEL Co., Ltd. (stands for SOFtware Engineering Laboratory) is a Japanese information technology company which was involved with video games in the late 1980s and early 1990s; Sofel is a Belgian industrial chemical company; SOFEL is a French company dealing in "jeux automatique" (eletronic games, such as pinball machines); an uncommon last name; Sofel Design in California; user names; a Bulgarian company selling types of paper bags)

01 January 2011

quick is wesac

wesac = quick (Lhaesine pronunciation = WEH-sahk) (adjective) (some things Google found for "wesac": a rare term; WESAC is a Minneapolis volunteer organization supporting youth athletics programs; user names; a rare last name; similarly named Wesak Festival in Mount Shasta, California, where Wesak (also known as Vesakha) is a Buddhist holiday)

A new word to start the new year.