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Showing posts with label structures. Show all posts

09 June 2013

fortress is dagran (revisited)

dagran = fortress (Lhaesine pronunciation = DAH-grahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "dagran": an uncommon term; name of a mercenary leader character in the game The Last Story (aka Quark); in World of Warcraft Emperor Dagran Thaurissan is the name of a humanoid NPC character; user names; a rare last name; Dagran Healthcare Systems in Tucson, Arizona)

My previous Lhaesine word for "fortress" was "dagaeln".

05 May 2013

house is alca (revisited)

alca = house (Lhaesine pronunciation = AHLK-uh) (noun) (some things Google found for "alca": a common term; ALCA is a Spanish acronym for Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas (Free Trade Area of the Americas); the Aero L 159 ALCA (Advanced Light Combat Aircraft) is a Czech-built aircraft; ALCA is an acronym for Arizona Landscape Contractors Association; ALCA stands for Alabama Counseling Association; ALCA is an acronym for Aurora Learning Community Association of Oklahoma City; ALCA Carpentry Contractors of Illinois; an unusual to uncommon last name; an unusual first name that can be masculine or feminine; a taxonomic genus of seabirds comprising the razorbill; in Catalan and Portuguese similarly spelled alça is a form of the verb "to raise, to lift"; In Portuguese similar spelled alça means "a semicircular handle"; a district in Peru; name of places in Peru and Chile)

My previous Lhaesine word for "house" was "alna". I'm no longer using the LN consonant combination.

25 August 2012

mill is seara

seara = mill (Lhaesine pronunciation = SEE-ruh) (noun) (some things Google found for "seara": a very common term; an uncommon last name; a unusual feminine first name; Seara is a Brazilian multi-national meat products company; Seara Sports (Sport Engineering and Recreation Asia Ltd) of Indochina; means "cornfield, harvest" in Portuguese; seară means evening in Romanian; name of a places in Brazil, Portugal and Spain)

21 July 2007

shrine is nicwen (revisited)

nicwen = shrine (Lhaesine pronunciation = NIH-kwen) (noun) (some things Google found for "nicwen": a rare term; a user name used by people in Germany, China, and Malaysia; appears on numerous Chinese language web pages)

My previous word for "shrine" was "niqwen". This is another alteration due to my removal of the letter "Q". I like the look of this new word.

18 July 2006

tomb is ascere

ascere = tomb (ah-SKEER) (noun) (some things Google found for "ascere": a rare term; user names; ASCERE Ascenseurs (elevators) of Castelnou France; L'Ascere is a social association that assists the unemployed find work in Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf France; an old English masculine first name from around 1000 AD; a Latin suffix or verb form; a fragment of "nascere" which means "to be born" in Italian; "Adi Ascere" areas in Ethiopia)

14 May 2006

tavern is sadire

sadire = tavern (Lhaesine pronunciation = SAH-dire) (noun) (some things Google found for "sadire": an uncommon to rare term; Sadire Navigation Systems; user names; Sadire (Sah-deer) is a female character on Kayrain Weyrhold game based on the fantasy books by Anne McCaffrey; "sădire" means "plantation" in Romanian; appears on pages from Moldavia; rare variant of Persian feminine first name "Sadira" (pronounced sa-DEER-ah) which means "lotus tree"; a last name; "sa dire" means "it knows to say" in Italian)

01 April 2006

tower is sresa (revisited)

sresa = tower (Lhaesine pronunciation = SREH-suh) (noun) (some things Google found for "sresa"; an uncommon term; SRESA stands for Società Raccolta E Salvaguardia Arte (Society Collection And Safeguard Art) which deals with music copyright certification in Italy; misspelling of or alternate spelling of resort town Stresa which is in Lombardy, Italy; means "cherry" in Italian dialects Parmigiano and Reggiano; company Sresa Supplies is an importer/exporter in Malaysia; a user name)

My previous word for "tower" was "swesa". I'm changed this because I chose not to use the "sw" consonant combination in Lhaesine.

22 February 2006

church is ashul

ashul = church (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-shuhl) (noun) (some things Google found for "ashul": an uncommon term; user names; character names; first name of a man from perhaps Nairobi, Africa; a last name in Pakistan; a masculine first name in India; a fantasy kingdom; Ashul Temple is the name of a cave room in Wind Cave National Park; Dr. Coaldwin-Ashul-Tahaylik is a minor Animorphs character; place or geographic feature in Yemen; inspired by words for "five" in Apache and Navajo)

I'm redefining "ashul" as "church". Previously "ashul" was the Lhaesine word for "five".

15 January 2006

bridge is palta (revisited)

palta = bridge (Lhaesine pronunciation = PAHLT-uh) (some things Google found for "palta": an uncommon term; means "avocado" in Spanish and Quechua; a last name from India; PALTA is Pennsylvania Land Trust Association; The Palta are a Native American ethnic group of Ecuador and Peru, they speak the Palta language; means "axe" in Turkmen; means "reverse, retaliation" in Urdu (Transliterated); means "shelf" in Quenya, a Tolkien conlang)

Minor change due to way I plan to construct plurals for nouns. The previous version of the word, "paltur", will be the plural.