Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

25 November 2012

sky is zale (revisited)

zale = sky (Lhaesine pronunciation = ZAIL) (noun) (some things Google found for "zale": Zale Corporation (Zales) is a retail jewelry chain; an uncommon last name; a unusual unisex first name; UT Southwestern University Hospital - Zale Lipshy in Dallas, Texas; a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family; name of a Romanian hip-hop group; means "chain mail" in Romanian; similar Žale is a cemetery in Ljubljana, Slovenia; Zale (or Żale) is the name of places in Poland; Zale (or Žale) is a place in Croatia)

My previous Lhaesine word for "sky" was "zelhe". This is a small change.

21 September 2011

fog is hes (revisited)

hes = fog (Lhaesine pronunciation = HESS) (noun) (some things Google found for "hes": a very common term; a misspelling of "he's"; a last name; NYSE stock symbol for Hess Corporation which is in the Oil & Gas industry; HES stands for Hanchett Entry Systems Inc. which sells integrated access control products; The Heinkel HeS 011 was an advanced World War II jet engine; an alternate spelling for Isis, a goddess in Egyptian mythology; in Dutch "hes" means "a short, protective type of shirt, typically worn by manual laborers")

My previous Lhaesine word for "fog" was "hese". I dropped the final e, which changes the vowel from long to short.

25 October 2010

frost is beyan (revisited)

beyan = frost (Lhaesine pronunciation = BEH-yahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "beyan": a very common term; a last name; a first name that can be Kurdish; Beyan Hairdressing Salon in London; a misspelling of name Bryan; means "declaration" in Turkish; name of places in Indonesia and Burma)

My previous Lhaesine word for "frost" was "bevun".

25 May 2010

storm is ahran (revisited)

ahran = storm (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-rrahn) (noun) (some things Google found for "ahran": an uncommon term; an uncommon masculine name which is variant of Aaron; Ahran Tejarat Co. is an Iranian chemical and pharmaceutical company; Ahran Fashions and Bags International is a company based in India; a rare last name; user names; name of a city in Iran)

My previous word for "storm" was "aihran". I have other words starting with AI, but this will be the first starting with AH.

17 April 2010

ice is ufa (revisited)

ufa = ice (Lhaesine pronunciation = UH-fuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "ufa": a very common term; name of a large city in Russia that is the capital of the Republic of Bashkortostan; UFA or Ufa is an acronym for Universum Film AG which was the principal German film studio from 1917 to 1945; UFA is an acronym in sports terminology for Unrestricted Free Agent; UFA is an acronym for Uniformed Firefighters Association which is the union of the Fire Department of Greater New York; UFA (United Farmers of Alberta) is a Canadian agriculture based cooperative; UFA is an acronym for United Fishermen of Alaska; UFA Inc. is a firm specializing in Air Traffic Control simulation technologies; UFA is an acronym for The Urban Forestry Administration of Washington DC; an unusual last name; means "crack" in Swahili and Zulu)

My previous Lhaesine word for "ice" was "uira". That word was too close to my word for "in" which is "ura".

09 January 2010

cloud is yena (revisited)

yena = cloud (Lhaesine pronunciation = YEH-nuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "yena": an uncommon term; a feminine first name; a last name; user names; Keshi Yena (stuffed cheese) is a Caribbean dish from Curacao; a mythical beast (also known as a crocotta) similar to a hyena; means "by whom" in Sanskrit (transliterated); means "he, she" in Zulu; name of cities in Greece and Guinea, name of a town in Russia)

My previous Lhaesine word for "cloud" was "yela", which unfortunately made me think of the color yellow.

07 June 2007

warm is seba (revisited)

seba = warm (Lhaesine pronunciation = SEH-buh) (adjective) (some things Google found for "seba": a very common term; SEBA stands for SouthEastern Bluegrass Association; SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH of Germany; a last name; SEBA stands for Sussex Education Business Alliance in UK; SEBA stands for South East Basketball Association Inc. of Australia; Associació de Seveis Energétics Básics Autónoms of Spain which installs renewable energy systems; Seba Developments Ltd. heating equipment of UK; Seba Cooperative Health Society Ltd. of India; SEBA stands for Systematic and Evolutionary Biogeographical Association; more companies and associations in various countries; a first name; means "apple" in Hindi (Transliterated); means "myself, themselves, yourself" in Slovak; means "quarterdeck" in Spanish; places in Congo, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Japan, India, Cote d'Ivoire, and Ethiopia)

My previous Lhaesine word for "warm" was "sebha". I've decided to not use the "bh" consonant combination.

In addition, "seba" was the former word for "eye" in Miresua, my other conlang. Words from Miresua are frequently not usable in Lhaesine, and visa versa, due to the differing rules for constructing words each language.

25 September 2006

dry is saon

saon = dry (Lhaesine pronunciation = SOWWN) (noun) (some things Google found for "saon": an uncommon term; In UK government data standards, SAON stands for Secondary Addressable Object Name; SAON stands for South Australian Orthopaedic Nurses; Saon is a commune in the Basse-Normandie region of France; a last name, notably IBM speech recognition researcher George Saon; a feminine fist name that can be Japanese; a masculine first name that can be Ancient Greek; SAON System is a Russian company in oil and gas refinery products; pseudonym of a French sculptor who died in 1733; user names; Saon Monastery in Romania; Mount Saon on the Greek island of Samothrake; SAON stands for sarcoid-associated optic neuropathy; places in Togo and France)

11 September 2006

wet is gowe

gowe = wet (Lhaesine pronuncation = GO'w) (adjective) (some things Google found for "gowe": an uncommon term; user names; a last name, notably sheet music editor Judi Gowe; a maker of a pattern of silverplate silverware; Gowe Corp is an Argentinean meat export company; a street in Kent, Washington; Gowe Beach in Gurnee, Illinois; Gowe Printing Company in Ohio; means "a blacksmith, a fool, halo around the sun or moon, persuade, wheedle" in Scottish; places in South Africa and Central African Republic)

17 July 2006

cold is marul (revisited)

marul = cold (MAH-ruhl) (adjective) (some things Google found for "marul": a common term; small Austrian ski resort of Raggal-Marul; user names; means "lettuce" in Turkish; places in Bangladesh and Macedonia; Marul Media of Croatia; male character on Stargate who is Leader of the Latonans and keeper of the flame of the Sentinel; "SKA 75 Marul CE" is a font; Marul de aur is a Lebanese Restaurant in Bucharest; "marul" means something in Romanian, perhaps it is related to "mar" which means "apple"; a last name; a place in Romania)

Another small change. My previous Lhaesine word for "cold" was "marl". Initially I defined "cold" as "marol".

21 January 2006

hot is chage (revisited)

chage = hot (CHAIG) (common term in Google; Chage & Aska are a popular Japanese musical duo that have released many albums and received several music awards; common misspelling of "change"; a last name; a user name; means "load" in French; means "sand" in Turkmen)

I simplified this word to one syllable. The previous word , "shaigo", also ended in an "o" which is atypical for Lhaesine.

19 December 2005

rain is mibun (redone)

mibun = rain (Lhaesine pronunciation = MIH-buhn) (some things Google found for "mibun": a rare to uncommon term; "mibun" means "social position, social status" in Japanese as written in Romanji; Anime Sailor Moon song "Ginga Ichi Mibun Chigai na Kataomoi" which translates as "A Galaxy of Difference"; Arabic swear word (pronunciation : me-boon) which means "gay person" and is used to insult someone, used especially in Tunisia)

Simplified this word. Previous version was a six-letter word, which also started with "mi" and ended with "n".

18 November 2005

wind is mose

mose = wind (MOHS) (a masculine first name, perhaps from Moses, such as in musician Mose Allison; Fort Mose Free African Settlement in Florida, established in 1738; Mose Halter tops for women; seems to be name "Moses" to Germans and Swedes; Mose Ambrose is a small community in Newfoundland; MOSe means Mozilla, Opera and Safari enhancement to CSS users; MOSE is Microsoft Office Specialist; a last name; a user name; places or geographic features in Germany, Malawi, Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Japan, and Slovenia)

01 October 2005

snow is lis

lis = snow (Lhaesine pronunciation = LIHS) (noun) (LIS is Library and Information Science; Luxembourg Income Study; a first name; LIS is Locate in Scotland; last bit of Fleur-de-lis; LIS is Lightning Imaging Sensor; LIS is Life Imaging Services; means "read" in French; means "lily" in Spanish)