Showing posts with label creatures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creatures. Show all posts

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.

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.

09 August 2010

dragon is asurha (revisited)

asurha = dragon (Lhaesine pronunciation = ah-SUR-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "asurha": a rare term; name of a female druid character; user names; similar word "ashura" means "tenth" in Arabic; similar word "Asura" is in Hinduism a group of power-seeking deities sometimes referred to as sinful and materialistic; name of a village in India; similar name "Asurhat" is a city in Bangladesh)

My previous word for "dragon" was "asourha". I didn't like that the English word "sour" was within this word.

13 January 2007

spider is tiche (revisited)

tiche = spider (Lhaesine pronunciation = TIGHCH) (noun) (some things Google found for "tiche": a common term; TIChe stands for The Thai Institute of Chemical engineering; Audun-le-Tiche is a village in the province of Lorraine in France; Tiche is an Italian Financial Advising company; TICHÌ is a brand of Lithuanian natural mineral water; Tiche Porcelain of Italy; song Tiche by Cesária Évora; Tiche Udoli Hotels and Guest Houses in Czech Republic; Tiche Cannel Coal Company in Pennsylvania; a last name; "tiché" means "quiet, silent" in Slovak; a place in Bulgaria)

This is a small change to alter the pronunciation. My previous word for "spider" was "teche", which I still think is a cool looking word. But I decided that I'd rather not have the word for "spiders" (plural) be pronounced the same as the English word "teacher". Someone may wrongly assume I'm criticizing the teaching profession.

22 September 2005

mouse is zib

zib = mouse (ZIB) (ZIB is Zuse Institute Berlin; the Zib Group in Australia are Insurance Brokers; Zib Holdings is Zibula Investments Holdings (PTY) LTD. in South Africa; seems to be a Czech last name; Zib is Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungenzib in Austria which means Center for International Relations)