Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geography. Show all posts

05 March 2015

ditch is birat

birat = ditch (Lhaesine pronunciation = BIH-raht) (noun) (Some things Google found for "birat": an uncommon term; unusual masculine first name; an unusual to rare last name; Birat Medical Collage in Biratnagor, Nepal; Birat Gold Cup soccer tournamemt in Nepal; Birat Shoe Company Ltd. in Kathmandu, Nepal; in Indonesian birat means scar; in Serbo-Croatian similar birati means to pick, choose; name of places in Bangladesh, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea; Birat al Jabal is a place in Syria)

This is a re-purposed, redefined word. This word previously, several years ago, meant "left" (direction) in Lhaesine.

01 March 2013

district is samast

samast = district (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAH-mahst) (noun) (some things Google found for "samast": a very common term; a rare last name, notably of Turkish ultra-nationalist Ogün Samast who in 2007 killed Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink; SA.MAST is an acronym for South African Mass Animal Sterilisation Trust; a rare Sanskrit in origin masculine name meaning whole, entire; Mera Samast Jeevan is a Punjabi song title; in Estonian a form of samasus which means sameness; name of a place in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province)

17 February 2013

land is hir

hir = land (Lhaesine pronunciation = HIRH) (noun) (some things Google found for "hir": a very common term; HIR is an acronym for Harvard International Review; HIR is an acronym for the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York; in English a gender-neutral possesive pronoun; HIR is the IATA airport code for Honiara International Airport in the Solomon Islands; an unusual last name; a rare first name; means "grace, blessing, goodwill" in Albanian; means "long" in Breton and Welsh; hîr means "whim, caprice" in Serbo-Croatian; name of a city and district in Iran; Pointe de Pen-Hir is a promontory in Brittany, France; name of places in Pakistan and India)

This is a new Lhaesine word.

09 December 2012

mound is taset

taset = mound (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAH-seht) (noun) (some things Google found for "taset": a common term; TASET is an acronym for Technically Advanced Smoke Estimation Tools; TASET stands Taesung Environmental Technology which is a Korean water treatment company; TASET stands for The Association of Science Education and Technology of Turkey; user names; a rare last name; a very rare first name; means "levels" in Estonian; a common misspelling of "taste"; name of a place in Senegal; Phumi Angk Taset is the name of a place in Cambodia)

This word was previously the Lhaesine word for "hill".

01 June 2012

place is gemar

gemar = place (Lhaesine pronunciation = GEH-mahr) (noun) (some things Google found for "gemar": a common term; a last name, notably NASA astronaut Charles D. Gemar; an unusual masculine first name; Gemar Photography of North Dakota; Gemar of the Netherlands for kitchen designs; Gemar Shipping and Trading Co. Ltd. of Turkey; means "like, fond of" in Indonesian and Malay)

This is a new Lhaesine word.

01 May 2012

spring (of water) is teaga (revisited)

teaga = spring (natural flow of ground water) (Lhaesine pronunciation = TEE-guh) (noun) (some things Google found for "teaga": an uncommon term; user names; Teaga Real Estate Solutions of Traverse City, Michigan; a rare last name; a rare first name; name of a World of Warcraft character; similar Teagan is an unusual first name that can be feminine; similar Tega Tea)

My previous Lhaesine word for "spring (of water)" was "teiza".

17 April 2012

valley is fira (revisited)

fira = valley (Lhaesine pronunciation = FIH-ruh) (noun) (some things Google found for "fira": a very common term; Fira (or Firá) aka Thira is a city on the Greek island Santorini; FIRA is an acronym for Furniture Industry Research Association of the UK; FIRA is an acronym for Federation of International Robot-soccer Association; Ikea Fira wooden box drawer storage; an unusual last name; an unusual feminine first name; Fira is the name of a Disney fairy; means "to celebrate, to observe (a holiday)" in Swedish)

My previous Lhaesine word for "valley" was "firule". I simplified this word.

17 March 2012

mountain is rihas (revisited)

rihas = mountain (Lhaesine pronunciation = RIH-hahss) (noun) (some things Google found for "rihas": an uncommon term; user names; Rihas (or Rihaz) is a rare masculine first name that can be Arabic in origin; a rare last name; Rihas Restaurant at Redstones Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland; Rihas Auto Sales in Vining, Iowa; character name in a piece of artwork; traditional breast cloth garments worn by women in Assam, India)

My previous Lhaesine word for "mountain" was "reihas". I dropped a letter.

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 2010

hill is talt (revisited)

talt = hill (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAHLT) (noun) (some things Google found for "talt": a very common term; a last name; Lough Talt (Irish: Loch Tailt) is a lake in County Sligo, Ireland; a masucline first name which can be short for Talton notably 19th century criminal Bad Talt Hall; Talt Electic in New Rochelle, New York; user names; means "spoken" in Danish; means "slipping, falling, insecure" in Sindarin; Talt modern outdoor furniture; Talt wa al Qulay`ah is the name of a city in Egypt)

My previous Lhaesine word for "hill" was "taset".

05 October 2010

grove is orile

orile = grove (Lhaesine pronunciation = AW-ryel) (noun) (some things Google found for "orile": an uncommon term; a place and part of multiple place names in Nigeria; Wasimi Orile Project to help a poor small village in Nigeria; a user name; a last name; "orile" seems to means something like origin or nation in Yoruba; a place in Micronesia)

21 April 2010

creek is saesal (redone)

saesal = creek (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAAW-sahl) (noun) (some things Google found for "saesal": a rare term; user names; a rare masculine first name; similar term Saesa is the name of a cities in Indonesia and North Korea)

My previous Lhaesine word for "creek" was "gousa", before that it was "guisa". According to my dictionary, a creek is a small stream, somewhat larger than a brook.

01 December 2009

ocean is celis (revisited)

celis = ocean (Lhaesine pronunciation = KEH-lihs) (noun) (some things Google found for "celis": an uncommon term; a US brewery purchased by Michigan Brewing Company and a name on several types of their beers such as Celis White and Celis Grand Cru; a last name, notably Belgian brewmaster Pierre Celis; CELIS LED tail light set; a misspelling possibly deliberately of ED drug Cialis; the name of cities in Ecuador and Spain)

My previous Lhaesine word for "ocean" was "cerhis". That word was too similar to my word for "forest" which is "larhis".

09 October 2009

lake is daec (revisited)

daec = lake (Lhaesine pronunciation = DAAWC) (noun) (some things Google found for "daec": an uncommon term; DAEC is an acronym for Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa; DAeC is an acronym for Deutscher Aero Club eV which is a German air sports federation; DAEC is a medical abbreviation for Diffusely Adhering E. Coli; an uncommon last name; DAEC is an acronym for Danish Atomic Energy Commission)

My previous Lhaesine word for "lake" was "dax".

09 December 2008

swamp is dutha (revisited)

dutha = swamp (Lhaesine pronunciation = DUHTH-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "dutha": an uncommon to rare term; an unusual last name that can be from France or Ireland or Hungary or India; name of a city in Turkey; user names; Dutha river and Dutha Knights in the World of Terris fantasy game setting; Dutha Spring in Western Australia; a place in a poem of Ossian which is supposedly Scottish-Gaelic)

My previous Lhaesine word for "swamp" was "dufash", which was rather unwieldy. I can use the "th" consonant combination in Lhaesine, and I should try to use it more often.

03 July 2008

stream is sithe

sithe = stream (Lhaesine pronunciation = SYETH, same as scythe) (noun) (A small natural watercourse) (some things Google found for "sithe": an uncommon term; Sithe Global Power and Sithe Energies; Sithe More House Bed and Breakfast in Western Scotland; a last name that can be English; user names; old spelling of "scythe"; fantasy character name; Sithe (or Sithè) is a place in Burma)

27 June 2008

marsh is vashar

vashar = marsh (Lhaesine pronunciation = VAH-shar) (noun) (some things Google found for "vashar": an uncommon term; a race of fictional proto-humans that are utterly corrupt and evil in Dungeon & Dragons; user name; Croatian DJ Val Vashar; name of a fictional Goddess of Joy and Recuperation on RPGnet; techno musician Vashar from Tuzla)

This is another new word. It was originally intended to be a revision of my word for "swamp", but I reliazed that it would be useful to have a word for "marsh". After all, marshes and swamps are two different things.

15 January 2007

forest is lahris (revisited)

lahris = forest (Lhaesine pronunciation = LAH-hris) (noun) (some things Google found for "lahris": a rare term; a last name that may be German in origin; a first name that may be Norwegian; a character name in a German language short story; name of an undead warrior character in World of Warcraft)

Another small change. My previous word for "forest" was "laris".

07 September 2006

meadow is berowa

berowa = meadow (BEH-ro-wuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "berowa": an uncommon term; Berowa, Berowa Heights, and Berowra Waters are northern suburbs of Sydney, Australia; Berowa Waters Inn; a last name that can be Filipino or Polish)

13 August 2006

desert is edaeca

edaeca = desert (eh-DAW-ka) (noun) (some things Google found for "edaeca": a rare term; appears on The Library of Babel; on a number of pages that look like utter gobbledygook; word I could not translate on several German language pages)