Showing posts with label 4 letter words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4 letter words. Show all posts

21 June 2015

her (adjective) is naev

naev = her (Lhaesine pronunciation = NAAV) (adjective) (possessive adjective) (some things Google found for "naev": an uncommon term; Naev is an open-source 2D space trading and combat game; NAEV (Nordrheinische Ärzteversorgung) is a German pension fund; name of a World of Warcraft character; a rare last name; in Armenian (transliterated) means also, too; similar Naeva is the name of a place in Mozambique)

17 June 2015

his (adjective) is neve

neve = his (Lhaesine pronunciation = NEEV) (adjective) (possessive adjective) (some things Google found for "neve": a very common term; AMS Neve is a UK based audio recording and mixing equipment company; an uncommon last name; an uncommon feminine first name, notably actress Neve Campbell; Neve Tzedek is a neighborhood in Tel Aviv, Israel; Neve Designs clothing; Neve was an American pop rock band with a hit single in 1999; Neve was a British band with a charting single in 2003; means snow in Italian, Portuguese and Galician; the name of places in Angola and Mozambique)

25 May 2015

they (inanimate) is obur

obur = they (inanimate) (Lhaesine pronunciation = OB-uhr) (pronoun) (personal subject pronoun) (some things Google found for "obur": an uncommon term; a rare last name; Obur Döner is a sandwich cafe in Turkey; Obur Balık (Gluttonous Fish) is a online Turkish cartoon adventure game; means glutton, gluttonous, gourmand, voracious in Turkish; similar öbür means other in Turkish; name of a place in Nigeria)

17 May 2015

them (animate) is nure

nure = them (animate) (Lhaesine pronunciation = NOUR) (pronoun) (personal object pronoun) (some things Google found for "nure": an uncommon term; NURE is an acronym in the USA for National Uranium Resource Evaluation; Moo-Nure is a brand of organic compost with cow manure sold mostly in the eastern USA; an unusual first name that seems to be unisex; an unusual last name; similar nure-onna in Japanese folklore is a creature with the head of a woman and the body of a snake; name of a small river which is a tributary of the Po in northern Italy; Val Nure is the valley of the Nure river; similar Goon Nure is a small place in Victoria, Australia; name of places in Pakistan and Nigeria)

21 April 2015

snake is vade (revisited)

vade = snake (Lhaesine pronunciation = VAYD) (noun) (some things Google found for "vade": a very common term; a vade mecum (from Latin "go with me") is a handbook or manual kept at hand for ready reference, something constantly carried on one's person; vade retro satana ("go back, Satan") is a Medieval Catholic formula for exorcism; Vade Retro sells email filtering software; an unusual last name; an unusual usually masculine first name; user names; in English obsolete verb meaning to fade; in Latin means go!; in Interlingua conjugations of the verb to go; in Norwegian Bokmål means to wade; in Turkish vade means due date, maturity date; name of places in Portugal, Canada, Sweden and Mozambique)

My previous Lhaesine word for "snake" was "voura". The new word is shorter and one syllable.

05 April 2015

nail is vich

vich = nail (Lhaesine pronunciation = VIHCH) (spike-shaped metal fastener) (noun) (some things Google found for "vich": a very common term; an unusual to uncommon last name; VICH is an acronym for Veterinary International Conference on Harmonization; similar -vich is an East Slavic patronymic suffix; Vich Pardesan is a Punjabi song; a rare masculine first name; Battle of Vich in 1810 in Catalonia, Spain; Vich de Fascia is the Ladin name of Vigo di Fassa in northern Italy; Vich is the name of a place in Switzerland)

21 March 2015

old is harn (revisited)

harn = old (Lhaesine pronunciation = HAHRN) (adjective) (some things Google found for "harn": a very common term; Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida; similar Hârn is a low-magic campaign setting for fantasy role-playing games; an uncommon last name; Harn is a Malaysia based producer of rolling drawer systems; HARN is an acronym for Houston Area Recruiter's Network; Harn is an acronym for Histories of Archaeology Research Network; HARN stands for the Human Animal Research Network at the University of Sydney in Australia; an unusual first name that is usually masculine; in German means (formal) urine; in Scots harn in the plural means brains; similar Nai Harn is a village and beach in Phuket, Thailand)

My previous Lhaesine word for "old" was "haran". I shortened this word by one letter to make it one syllable.

13 March 2015

plan is elte

elte = plan (Lhaesine pronunciation = EELT) (noun) (some things Google found for "elte": a common term; Elte is a home furnishings store in Toronto, Canada; ELTE stands for Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest which is the largest university in Hungary; ELTE Engineering Ltd. of Turkey; ELTE S.R.L. of Italy is an electric motor store; an unusual last name; a rare first name; means knead in Norwegian; name of a place in Germany)

21 February 2015

pale is nosa

nosa = pale (light in color) (Lhaesine pronunciation = NAW-suh) (adjective) (some things Google found for "nosa": a very common term; NOSA is an acronym for Newport Ocean Sailing Association of California; NOSA stands for NOAA Observing System Architecture; NOSA is an acronym for Nordic Society for Aerosol Research; NOSA stands for Northern Outlaw Sprint Association which promotes sprint car racing in the upper Midwest; NOSA stands for National Oil Shale Association; NOSA stands for The North Saanich Dog Obedience Training Club in Canada; nosa means ours in Galician which is a language of northwestern Spain; a last name; name of a place in Malawi)

25 January 2015

only is maon

maon = only (Lhaesine pronunciation = MAWWN) (adjective) (some things Google found for "maon": an uncommon term; an unusual to rare last name; an unusual to rare first name; Maon Kurosaki is a female Japanese singer-songwriter; similar Ma'on is an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank and the name of a former biblical village in Judah; a previous name for a preon which is a theoretical component of quarks; Maon Hotel in Brighton, England; Maon ki dua poori hui is a Pakistani song; a word for brick in Occitan which is a language of Southern France and parts of Italy; name of a place in Ghana)

I deliberately made this word somewhat similar to the Lhaesine word for one, mag.

17 January 2015

rib is poga

poga = rib (Lhaesine pronunciation = PAWG-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "poga": an uncommon term; Poga is a 2014 Telugu horror movie; an unusual last name; a rare first name; POGA is an acronym for Prairie Oat Growers Association of Canada; a genus of flowering plants; POGA Capital is a New Brunswick based mortgage financing company; conjugations of the Italian verb pogare meaning to pogo or mosh; in Telugu (transliterated) means smoke, steam, vapor; name of places in Russia and Tennessee)

A new Lhaesine word, to be added to the category of body parts.

13 January 2015

sink is piun

piun = sink (Lhaesine pronunciation = PYOON) (noun) (some things Google found for "piun": an uncommon term; user names; a rare last name; former name of the village of Bühne in Germany; in Volapük piun is a word for tallow; in Iban, which is a language of the island of Borneo, piun means opium; name of places in Pakistan and India)

You've heard the slang expression, everything but the kitchen sink? I've made the words for kitchen and sink.

05 January 2015

list is sule

sule = list (Lhaesine pronunciation = SOOL) (noun) (some things Google found for "sule": a common term; Sule Pagoda is a Burmese stupa in Yangon, Myanmar; Sule (AKA Entis Sutisna) is an Indonesian comedian and actor; similar Süle Law Firm of Budapest, Hungary; an unusual last name; an unusual first name; similar Şule is a Turkish feminine first name; Sule Skerry and Sule Stack are tiny remote islands north of Scotland; name of places in Italy and Turkey)

I guess resuming the Lhaesine Dictionary Project was on my to-do bucket list.

25 June 2013

knot is ishe (revisited)

ishe = knot (Lhaesine pronunciation = EYESH) (noun) (some things Google found for "ishe": a common term; a unusual first name that can be masculine, notably boxer Ishe "Sugar Shay" Smith; user names; DJ Ishe; ISHE is an acronym for the International Society for Human Ethology; ISHE is an acronym for Indiana Society of Healthcare Engineers and Iowa Society for Healthcare Engineering; a rare last name; name of a place in Nigeria)

My previous Lhaesine word for "knot" was "isre". A small change.

17 June 2013

fat is gole (revisited)

gole = fat (Lhaesine pronunciation = GOHL) (adjective) (some things Google found for "gole": a very common term; an uncommon last name; Gole Market is a middle-class locality in New Delhi, India; means "throats; gorges" in Italian; means "swig, gulp" in Portuguese: means something in Persian when transliterated; a form of the noun meaning "goal" in Turkish; name of villages in Poland; similar Göle is a small city and rural district in northeast Turkey)

The previous Lhaesine word for "fat" was "goala".

05 May 2013

house is alca (revisited)

alca = house (Lhaesine pronunciation = AHLK-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "alca": a common term; ALCA is a Spanish acronym for Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (Free Trade Area of the Americas); the Aero L 159 ALCA (Advanced Light Combat Aircraft) is a Czech-built aircraft; ALCA is an acronym for Arizona Landscape Contractors Association; ALCA stands for Alabama Counseling Association; ALCA is an acronym for Aurora Learning Community Association of Oklahoma City; ALCA Carpentry Contractors of Illinois; an unusual to uncommon last name; an unusual first name that can be masculine or feminine; a taxonomic genus of seabirds comprising the razorbill; in Catalan and Portuguese similarly spelled alça is a form of the verb "to raise, to lift"; In Portuguese similar spelled alça means "a semicircular handle"; a district in Peru; name of places in Peru and Chile)

My previous Lhaesine word for "house" was "alna". I'm no longer using the LN consonant combination.

01 May 2013

pair is caor

caor = pair (Lhaesine pronunciation = CAUR) (noun) (some things Google found for "caor": an uncommon term; CAOR is an acronym for Cherokee Association of Realtors; CAOR is a Centre de Robotique (Robotics Lab) at MINES ParisTech Graduate School; a rare last name; Caor Ashstone is a NPC Dungeon Boss in game Rift; CAOR 99 is an Explorer Yacht; CAOR is the Bucharest stock symbol for Calipso SA Oradea which offers catering services; means berry in Irish; similar Caore is the name of a place in the Philippines)

17 March 2013

small is wese (revisited)

wese = small (Lhaesine pronunciation = WEES) (adjective) (some things Google found for "wese": a common term; WESE (92.5 FM) is an urban contemporary radio station in the Tupelo area of Mississippi; WESE (Water and Environmental Systems) is a water treatment company in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; user names; a rare to unusual last name; similar De Wese or DeWese is an unusual last name; a rare first name; WESE is an acronym for Waldorf Education Society of Edmonton in Canada; SKS Wese Roadrace Bicycle Mini Pump; "wése" means "moist, macerated" in Old English; Wese is the name of a place in the Dem. Republic of the Congo)

My previous Lhaesine word for "small" was "woxe", which was a somewhat odd word.

09 March 2013

since is nale

nale = since (from (time)) (Lhaesine pronunciation = NAIL) (adverb, preposition, conjunction) (some things Google found for "nale": a very common term; an uncommon last name; user names; an unusual first name; an obsolete Chaucer era term for ale and also alehouse; NALE is an acronym for Northern Arizona Literacy Enterprises; Borzu Nale and Kam Nale are Fluggrians in the Star Wars universe; NALE is an acronym for Naval and Amphibious Liaison Element; Nale is the evil twin brother of Elan in webcomic Order of the Stick; name of a Swedish heavy metal band; name of places in places in Pakistan, the Philippines, India, Sweden and Mali)

01 February 2013

oak is nelh (revisited)

nelh = oak (Lhaesine pronunciation = NELH) (noun) (some things Google found for "nelh": an uncommon term; NeLH is an acronym for National Electronic Library for Health in the UK; NELH stands for North East Labour History in the UK; NELH was the former acronym for Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii (now NELHA, Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority); user names; a rare last name that can be French; a very rare first name)

My previous Lhaesine word for "oak" was "nere", which I'll likely redefine.