Showing posts with label items. Show all posts
Showing posts with label items. Show all posts

01 April 2015

tool is fipul

fipul = tool (Lhaesine pronunciation = FIH-puhl) (noun) (some things Google found for "fipul": a rare term; fipul (AKA Fibreglass Pultrusions Ltd) is a New Zealand manufacturing company; FIPUL is an acronym for Frequency Independent Per Unit Length; user names; gaming character names; German website of an image and personality advice consultant; occurs as bad OCR of old text documents)

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 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.

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)

25 September 2010

staff is magure (revisited)

magure = staff (rod or pole) (Lhaesine pronunciation = MAH-goor) (noun) (some things Google found for "magure": an uncommon term; an uncommon last name; a misspelling of the last name Maguire; means "by chance, stroke of luck" in Japanese (transliterated); user names; a race of alien creatures in manga and anime Figure 17; Magure or Magura is a mountain in southeast Poland; Magure (or Magura) is a place in Kosovo)

My previous Lhaesine word for "staff" was "mueyin", an odd word which had a now unallowed vowel combination.

17 September 2010

stick is durs

durs = stick (Lhaesine pronunciation = DUHRS) (noun) (some things Google found for "durs": a very common term; a masculine first name, notably German poet Durs Grünbein and Swiss-born British gunmaker Durs Egg (1748-1831); an uncommon last name; in French the masculine plural form of the adjective hard or tough which appears in terms such as oeufs durs and disques durs)

25 August 2010

block is herat

herat = block (Lhaesine pronunciation = HEH-raht) (noun) (some things Google found for "herat": a very common term; name of a city (and province) in western Afghanistan that dates back to ancient times; user names; an unusual last name; in Star Wars name of a female Jawa minor character; In Finnish the plural of "hera" which means "whey"; Herat Hammillewa is the name of a city in Sri Lanka)

This is a new word. I'm trying to throw in some new words now and then.

25 February 2010

key is nolde (revisited)

nolde = key (Lhaesine pronunciation = NOHLD) (noun) (some things Google found for "nolde": an uncommon term; a last name, notably German Expressionist painter Emil Nolde; The Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center in Pennsylvania; Nolde Condos in Richmond, VA; verb conjugations meaning "not wanted or not wished" in Old English; name of a city in Denmark)

My previous Lhaesine word for "key" was "nolhe". I changed one letter, a H to a D. I'm modifying Lhaesine words, currently those starting with N, to use more of the alphabet.

29 May 2008

bell is vara (reinstated)

vara = bell (Lhaesine pronunciation = VAH-ruh) (some things Google found for "vara": a very common term; VARA is Vermont Alpine Racing Association; Omroepvereniging VARA is a public broadcasting organization in the Netherlands; Vara Chevrolet in San Antonio, Texas; Vara software offers products to create presentations and webcasts; a woman's and a man's first name, probably Indian; Vara's Beach House has accommodations on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands; VARA is Voluntary Association for Rehabilitation of Afghanistan; VARA is Victor Amateur Radio Association headquartered in New Jersey; the Vara-tones are a '60s surf music band; Vara Healing Arts of Albany, California; a last name, probably Hispanic; last name "De La Vara"; "coxa vara" is an unusual hip condition; VARA is Visual Artists Rights Act; VarA stands for Verified And Recipient Authorized for email; "tibia vara" is also known as Blount disease which causes bowlegs; Vara is an old Spanish and Portuguese unit of length of between 32 to 43 inches; Maytag Vara dishwashers; Vara Valley, Liguria, Italy; Vara Hostels in Sweden; Baterie Vara was a German WWII fort in Norway; "S'Vara" is the Hebrew word for "reason"; means "rod, pole, or stick" in Spanish and Portuguese; means "early" in Estonian; means "spare or reserve" in Finnish; means "summer" in Romanian; means verb "be, exist” and noun "article, product” in Swedish; places in Turkey, Iran, Burkina Faso, Estonia, Portugal, Sweden, and Solomon Islands)

With this word I'm bringing the letter "v" back into Lhaesine. I can use all the consonants I can get, so I changed my mind about disallowing "v".

My initial word for "bell" was "vara", which I later modified to "fara". I'm returning to "vara". Some of the information listed in this posting has been updated.

19 September 2007

token is jix

jix = token (Lhaesine pronunciation = JIHKS) (noun) (some things Google found for "jix": an uncommon term; Jix Hobbies shop of South Africa; JiX is a Java jigsaw puzzle shareware game; In the Star Wars universe Wrenga Jixton better known as Jix was a male Imperial agent working directly for Darth Vader; JiX Konnection is a hip-hop artist; user names; Backdoor.Win32.Jix.a is a Trojan computer virus; JIX motorcycle helmet made in China; JIX technologies is a website design company; Jix is a female character name in time-travel romance book Highland Dream)

By the way, in Lhaesine the "tokens" would be "jixur".

07 September 2007

ribbon is haeril

haeril = ribbon (Lhaesine pronunciation = HAW-rihl) (noun) (some things Google found for "haeril": a rare term; an Indonesian first name that is likely masculine; a last name that also seems to be Indonesian; a female character mentioned on Barrow-Downs LOTR RPG related forum)

This is a new Lhaesine word. It's my first posting in about two months that isn't a revision.

13 July 2007

book is tocwa (revisited)

tocwa = book (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAW-kwuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "tocwa": a rare term; user name; FPV/TOCWA is a Ford car club where TOCWA stands for Tickford Owners Club of Western Australia; tocwa means "corn drink" in Wari' which is a rare language of Brazilian-Bolivian border region of the Amazon; first name of an African-American man)

My previous word for "book" was "toqwa". This is another change due to my removal of the letter "Q" from Lhaesine. I think this is an odd word, but I haven't decided to redo it.

23 June 2007

sigil is cwed (revisited)

cwed = sigil (Lhaesine pronunciation = KWED) (some things Google found for "cwed": an uncommon term: CWED stands for Central Wholesale Electrical Distributors Inc.; CWED stands for Center for Women the Earth and the Divine; CWED stands for Center for Workforce and Economic Development; CWED stands for Community Workshop on Economic Development in Chicago; CWED stands for Contrast Weighted Edge Density; CWED stands for Correlation-based Watermarking Error Diffusion; similar word "cwede" means "a saying" in Anglo-Saxon)

A sigil can be a seal stamp or signature mark. It also can be a non-alphabetic symbol for a specific magical purpose, which can be part of a glyph.

My previous word for "sigil" was "qwed". I've decided to not use the letter "Q" in Lhaesine after all.

19 April 2007

message is ebrelan

ebrelan = message (Lhaesine pronunciation = eh-BREH-lahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "ebrelan": a very rare term; a suggested pet name; a user name)

25 March 2007

card is soret

soret = card (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAW-reht) (noun) (some things Google found for "soret": an uncommon term; a last name notably Swiss chemist Jacques-Louis Soret (1827-1890) and Swiss scholar and Oriental numismatics Frédéric Soret (1795-1865); Soret peak and band within the blue wavelength region in absorption spectroscopy; Soret effect and Soret coefficients in thermal diffusion; name of a place in Romania; "Fosse Soret" is a place in Belgium)

23 May 2006

ball is olon

olon = ball (OH-LOHN) (noun) (some things Google found for "olon": an uncommon to common term; Olon Industries Inc. provides products and services to the North American furniture and cabinet-making industries; OLON stands for Organisatie van Lokale Omroepen (Organization of local broadcastings) in the Netherlands; Olon Music is a music distribution company in Greece; a first name, likely masculine; in DC comics universe Olon is President of the other dimensional world of Meta, the homeworld of Shade the Changing Man; OLON stands for Overseas Studies in London courses from Oregon State University; may mean something in Finnish; places in Russian Federation and Ecuador; place "Olon Bulagiin Bayshing" in Mongolia; island in Sweden)

14 April 2006

coin is arex

arex = coin (AH-reks) (noun) (some things Google found for "arex"; an uncommon term; AREX Inc, is a Canadian Internet access and computer related services company; AREX stands for the ARabidopsis Gene EXpression Database; AREX International (New Zealand) Limited is an exporter of food and beverage to Asia; Arex is an automotive equipment company in the Netherlands; Arex is Serbian company that makes marzipan sweets; AB AREX is a Swedish manufacturer of plastic equipment for industry; AREX Picardie of France; Arex GmbH ofGermany sells hair products; AXEX stands for Assessoria de Relações Externas of Brazil; on Star Trek: The Animated Series Lieutenant Arex is an alien Starfleet officer assigned to the U.S.S. Enterprise as ship's Navigator; a masculine first name; AREX is several different Polish companies; user names; Arex is a 1983 computer game)

12 February 2006

letter is irhise

irhise = letter (written message) (Lhaesine pronunciation = IHR-ice) (some things Google found for "irhise": a very rare term; seems to be a feminine Korean name; user names spelled as iRhiSe and IrHiSe)

08 February 2006

package is berant

berant = package (Lhaesine pronunciation = BEH-rahnt) (some things Google found for "berant": an uncommon term; a last name, seems to be Jewish; a user name; "X-U-berant" is a user name; Berant Industrias of Argentina makes textile tapes/bands and zippers; part of "rever-berant"; there's a Sir Berant in "Raoul de Cambrai", a story in Old French; means "belated, late, overdue" in Basque)

25 December 2005

gift is cire

cire = gift (KIGHR, rhymes with fire) (common term in Google; name of an artist who does "dark childrens art that's not really for children"; means "wax" in French; ciré, pronounced like suh-ray, is a fabric with a shiny, highly glazed finish; CIRÉ asbl of Belgium is Coordination et Initiatives pour et avec les Réfugiés et Étrangers; CIRE in Poland is Agencja Rynku Energii SA; Cire is a Progressive Art-Rock band from New Orleans; CIRE is the Continuous Identification of Research Evidence; Cire Computer Productions offers customized Web development and hosting; CIRE is a French tech company in "circuits imprimés"; CIRE SnowTrips, sponsored by CIRE Boardwear based in Manhattan Beach, CA., offers supervised round trip transportation to Mammoth Mtn and Bear Mtn Resort; CIRE Project is Citizens' Initiative on Race and Ethnicity; CIRE is Committee on International Relations and Education; CIRE is Current Issues in Research Ethics at Columbia University; "cire perdue" is "lost-wax technique" in metal casting; places in Turkey, France, and Slovakia; I like that "cire" is similar to "care")