Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

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.

05 July 2012

straw is cebre

cebre = straw (Lhaesine pronunciation = KEEBR) (noun) (some things Google found for "cebre": an uncommon term; CEBRE is Czech Business Representation to the EU; an unusual last name; a rare first name that can be feminine possibly pronounced seb-ruh; user names; name of a place in Turkey)

21 May 2012

grass is yone (revisited)

yone = grass (Lhaesine pronunciation = YOAN) (noun) (some things Google found for "yone": a common term; user names; an uncommon last name; Yasumasa "Yone" Yonehara is a Japanese photographer; a first name that is usually feminine and Japanese although it can also can be Brazilian; in Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL Yone is the grandmother of Tori Meadows; name of a place in Mali)

My previous word for "grass" was "yolne". I'm phasing out the unusual LN consonant combination.

29 April 2012

ivy is saneasa (revisited)

saneasa = ivy (Lhaesine pronunciation = sah-NEE-suh) (noun) (some things Google found for "saneasa": an uncommon to rare term; similar SANESA is an acronym for South African National Equestrian Schools Association; similar SANASA is an acronym for Sociedade de Abastecimento de Agua e Saneamento S.A. (Society of Water Supply and Sanitation) of Brazil; similar Baneasa is a place in Romania; may mean something in a language spoken by Sikhs)

My previous Lhaesine word for "ivy" was "saneisa". This is a tweak due to changed spelling rules. The pronunciation remains the same.

29 March 2012

moss is nael

nael = moss (Lhaesine pronunciation = NAAWL) (Some things Google found for "nael: a common term; NAEL is an acronym for The Norton Anthology of English Literature; a last name; illustrator and painter Marta Nael; an unusual masculine first name which can be Arabic; Pacific voyage of the sailboat Nael; NAeL São Paulo is a Clemenceau class aircraft carrier of the Brazilian Navy; a game player; Old French "nael" is from Latin "natalis" which means "of birth"; means "nail" in Afrikaans and Estonian; means "navel" in Scottish)

This is another re-purposed, redefined word. Some time ago, not recently, "nael" meant "the (plural)" in Lhaesine.

17 August 2011

vine is rele

rele = vine (Lhaesine pronunciation = REEL) (noun) (some things Google found for "rele": a very common term; an unusual last name; The Rele River is a small river in the Biobío Region of Chile; Relehimana Miya De Lacroa or Princess Rele is a character in Japanese anime Superior Defender Gundam Force; user names; a bad misspelling or slangy misspelling of really; means (electronics) relay in Finnish; conjugations of the verb to reread in Galician; means to be called in Haitian Creole; neuter plural nominative form of rău which means "bad, wrong" in Romanian)

19 December 2007

seed is girna

girna = seed (Lhaesine pronunciation = GIHRN-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "girna": an uncommon term; a stone shelter found in the Maltese countryside; a river in Maharashtra state of southern India; a first name; means something in Greek - "Girna Ksana" is a song title by Antique which is a Greek pop/dance music duo orginating from Sweden, "Girna Se Mena" is an Greek album by Panos Kiamos, "Girna" is a song title by a Cypriot-Greek singer Anna Vissi; means "grindstone, millstone" in Lithuanian)

21 November 2007

crop is ege

ege = crop (Lhaesine pronunciation = EEG) (noun) (harvest) (some things Google found for "ege": a very common term; Ege University is a public university in Turkey; a last name; a first name; airport code for Eagle County Airport in Colorado; Ege Seramik America sells Turkish-manufactured ceramic and porcelain tile materials; EGE stands for European Group on Ethics; EGE-Elektronik Spezial Sensoren GmbH of Germany sells sensors; Ege Bamyasi is the title of a 1972 CD by prog-rock group Can; ege carpets limited of the UK; EGE TV and Radio of Turkey; eans "extremely" in Esperanto; places in Nigeria, Romania, Indiana, and Indonesia)

21 February 2007

leaf is rorn (redefined)

rorn = leaf (Lhaesine pronunciation = ROHRN) (noun) (some things Google found for "rorn": a musical artist; Rorn the Wanderer in fantasy campaign world Habisfern; in Thai Food "Yum Mu Rorn" is "Spicy Dried Pork"; RORN is a weather station; "Ka Rorn" is an island village in Southern Thailand; "Rorn M'doi" is a place in Wheel of Time fantasy series; user names; a last name that can be German or Cambodian; RORN is the model name of a 1923 radio; a first name that can be Malaysian; means "destruction, devastation, war" in TSR's AD&D Dwarven language)

Previously, for a short time, "rorn" was the word for "iron". I thought it looked too close to "iron".

29 January 2007

hedge is fowan

fowan = hedge (Lhaesine pronunciation = FOH-wahn) (noun) (plants) (some things Google found for "fowan": an uncommon term; A dry, scorching wind of Great Britain and the Isle of Man; a last name which is possibly Irish; there are ancient stone Buddhist sculptures near the town of Fowan in China; a Theurgist gaming character on the Camelot Herald; means "blast, blight, dry period, scorch" in Manx)

15 March 2006

grape is sefe

sefe = grape (SEEF) (noun) (some things Google found for "sefe": an uncommon to common term; a last name, can be Samoan; SEFE stands for Secondary Education / Foundations of Education, college courses; user names; SEFE stands for the Finnish Association of Graduates in Economics and Business administration; "šéfe" (accent marks over "s" and first "e") means "governor" in Czech; SEFE stands for Standardization Evaluation Flight Examiner; SEFE stands for Sociedad Española de Fenomenología; a first name, can be Albanian; a misspelling of "safe"; in urban slang dictionary means "cool, heavy, tight"; a place in Mali)

24 January 2006

shrub is blese

blese = shrub (Lhaesine pronunciation = BLEES) (some things Google found for "blese": an uncommon term; user name; a last name, can be Hungarian, English, French, Prussian or Italian; means "wound" in Creole, appears on Haitian Creole pages; misspelling of "bless"; Old English for "bless", a word on Shakespeare's gravestone; undefined somethings in Czech and Norwegian; "blesse" means "blaze" in German, and "harmed, wounds" in French)

08 October 2005

tree is wir

wir = tree (Lhaesine pronunciation = WIHR) (some things Google found for "wir": means "we" in German; WIR bank in Switzerland; WIR stands for Wisconsin International Raceway; WIR is Week in Review; WiR is Women in Research; WIR is Wisconsin Immunization Registry; WIR is World Investment Report; WIR is Wyoming Internet Resources; Wir is the title of a 2003 German dramatic movie; WIR is Western Interstate Region; seems to be a form of "our" in Scots)