Showing posts with label colors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label colors. Show all posts

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 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)

17 November 2010

gray is lige (revisited)

lige = gray (Lhaesine pronunciation = LYEG) (adjective) (color) (some things Google found for "lige": an uncommon term; an old masculine first name which can be short for Elijah (which is likely pronounced LYEJ); a last name; user names; means "straight, equal, directly" in Danish; means "liege" in French; name of cities in Belgium and China; name of a town in Oklahoma)

My previous word for "gray" was "liiga". I shortened this word, keeping the long i vowel.

09 November 2010

orange is hoanar (revisited)

hoanar = orange (Lhaesine pronunciation = HO-nawr) (adjective) (color) (some things Google found for "hoanar": a rare term; Hoanar (or likely Honar) Garden in Iran; user names; a rare last name; name of a World of Warcraft character; a misspelling of "honor")

My previous word for "orange" was "honar". I'm changing this word slightly again because this is how I want to pronounce it.

01 November 2008

purple is toiza (revisited)

toiza = purple (Lhaesine pronunciation = TOY-zuh) (adjective) (color) (some things Google found for "toiza": an uncommon to rare term; user names; Pokémon Toiza Charmander, Toiza Bulbasaur, and Toiza Squirtle; an unusual last name)

My previous Lhaesine word for "purple" was "toisa". I have the letter "z" in this conlang, might as well use it.

This word ends my series of color word modifications.

01 October 2008

black is ferac (revisited)

ferac = black (Lhaesine pronunciation = FEH-rack) (adjective) (some things Google found for "ferac": an uncommon to rare term; FERAC is an acronym for Fisheries, Ecology and Recreation Advisory Committee in Wales; user names; a US aviation navigation waypoint; a last name; gaming character name; FERAC Builders and Development of the Philippines; Latin language stem or base of words meaning fertile; name of a place in Turkey)

Orginally my word for "black" was "ferag". Then, for pronunciation reasons, I changed the word to "ferhag". Now I'm changing it again.

25 September 2008

blue is rima (redone)

rima = blue (Lhaesine pronunciation = RIH-muh) (some things Google found for "rima": a very common term; a feminine first name that can be Arabic in origin; Rima a.k.a Rima the Jungle Girl is a Victorian-novel heroine adapted for comic books; Rima Mashiro is a female supporting character in anime and manga series Shugo Chara; a crack or fissure on the moon; RIMA Manufacturing Company; a last name; means "rhyme" in Croatian, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; means "five" in Maori; name of cities in China, Italy, Burkina Faso, Honduras, and United Arab Emirates)

I'm redoing this conlang word again. My previous Lhaesine word for "blue" was "sris", which was a good word but somehow not quite right.

By the way, my word for "blue" in Miresua, my Basque-Finnish inspired conlang, is "usin". In Illunse, Kate's constructed language, "blue" is "suthe".

21 May 2007

red is chur (revisited)

chur = red (Lhaesine pronunciation = CHUR) (adjective) (color) (some things Google found for "chur": a very common term; Chur is the capital of the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the oldest city in Switzerland; CHUR-FM is a Canadian adult contemporary radio station in Ontario; a last name; means "put" in Irish and in Manx; places in Sudan, Nigeria, Germany, Russian Federation, Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan)

This is a small change. My previous word for the color "red" was "chuer".

11 January 2007

brown is gufan (revisited)

gufan = brown (Lhaesine pronunciation = guh-FAHN) (adjective) (some things Google found for "gufan": an uncommon term; user names; a last name that seems to be Chinese and Russian; Jewish objects that are "gufan kadosh" are inherently holy; means something in Icelandic; a place in Iran)