desca = window (Lhaesine pronunciation = DEH-skuh) (noun) (some things Google found for "desca": an uncommon term; Desca is a Latin American networking company; Desca Music Stand; an unusual feminine first name; an unusual last name; Desca International Freight S.R.L. of Italy; in Medieval Latin "desca" means "table to write on, desk")
My previous Lhaesine word for "window" was "decaera". I changed it because the plural was unwieldy.
Lhaesine is a conlang, an artificial or constructed language. This is a project to invent a lexicon of new "words" in an imaginary language. Postings shows English to Lhaesine, my approximate Lhaesine word pronunciation, and what Google search found for my made-up word.
29 October 2010
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".
My previous Lhaesine word for "frost" was "bevun".
21 October 2010
dim is rode
rode = dim (Lhaesine pronunciation = RODE) (adjective) (lacking in brightness) (some things Google found for "rode": a very common term; Rode (or RØDE) Microphones; a fairly common last name; past tense of "ride" in English; Rode-trol Rodent Control product; In Powerboating, Rode is the length of the anchor line and/or chain used for anchoring; means "prowl" in Haitian Creole; an inflected form of "red" in Dutch; means "to mess up" in Dutch; name of cities in Haiti, Pakistan, United Kingdom, Belgium, South Africa, Denmark, and Sweden)
I'm redefining this word. Previously "rode" meant "dark".
I'm redefining this word. Previously "rode" meant "dark".
17 October 2010
dark is nire (revisited)
nire = dark (Lhaesine pronunciation = NYER, rhymes with fire) (adjective) (some things Google found for "nire": an uncommon term; Nire valley and river in Ireland near Waterford; NIRE is an acronym for National Institute of Relationship Enhancement; user names; NIRE is an acronym for National Institute for Resources and Environment in Japan; NIRE is an acronym for National Institute for Rehabilitation Engineering in USA; a Japanese last name; Nire Designs Inc.; means "my" in Basque; place called Nire-Co in Argentina; name of cities in Japan and Turkey)
"Nire" was previously the Lhaesine word for "night", which I'm shifting to mean "dark". My previous word for "dark" was "rode".
"Nire" was previously the Lhaesine word for "night", which I'm shifting to mean "dark". My previous word for "dark" was "rode".
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".
My previous Lhaesine word for "hill" was "taset".
09 October 2010
night is tas (revisited)
tas = night (Lhaesine pronunciation = TAHS or TASS) (noun) (some things Google found for "tas": a very common term; a last name; TAS is an acronym for True Airspeed; Tas is an abbreviation for Tasmania; a rare masculine first name; means "bag" in Afrikaans and Dutch; means "cymbal" in Bosnian and Serbian; means "cup" in Breton; means "father" in Cornish; means "heap, pile" in French; means "that" in Latvian and Lithuanian; similar word "taş" means "stone" in Turkish; River Tas in Norfolk, England; name of cities in Pakistan and Hungary)
My previous word for "night" was "nire". That word will be reused, redefined.
My previous word for "night" was "nire". That word will be reused, redefined.
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)
01 October 2010
star is avel (revisited)
avel = star (Lhaesine pronunciation = AH-vehl) (noun) (some things Google found for "avel": a very common term; an uncommon masculine first name which is a variant of Abel; a rare feminine first name; an uncommon last name; user names; Avel Lindberg transformers and power converters; Avel Yachting of Montenegro; means "wind" in Breton; means "to come" in Romani; means "breeding" in Swedish)
My previous Lhaesine word for "star" was "lire". On hindsight that word seemed too similar to my word for "sun" which is "zere". I expect "lire" will be reused.
My previous Lhaesine word for "star" was "lire". On hindsight that word seemed too similar to my word for "sun" which is "zere". I expect "lire" will be reused.
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.
My previous Lhaesine word for "staff" was "mueyin", an odd word which had a now unallowed vowel combination.
21 September 2010
seagull is seda
seda = seagull (Lhaesine pronunciation = SEH-duh) (noun) (some things Google found for "seda": an very common term; SEDA is an acronym for Staged Event-Driven Architecture which is an Internet server architecture; a last name; Seda France Candles; a feminine first name; means "some of this, this" in Estonian; means "voice" in Kurdish; means "silk" in Spanish and Portuguese; means "sound, voice" in Turkish; name of cities in Indonesia, Ethiopia, Congo, Lithuania, and Mozambique)
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)
13 September 2010
to is ane (revisited)
ane = to (Lhaesine pronunciation = AYN) (preposition) (some things Google found for "ane": a very common term; a feminine first name which is a variant of Anne that can be Danish or Norwegian; a last name; ANE is an acronym for Ancient Near East; The Battle of Prairie D'Ane was fought in 1864 in Arkansas during the American Civil War; means "indulgence" in Finnish; means "year" in Haitian Creole; means "elder sister" in Japanese (transliterated); means "wife" in Korean (transliterated); means "one" in Scots; similar word "âne" means "donkey, ass" in French; a city in the Netherlands and the nearby Battle of Ane (1227); name of a cities in India and South Korea)
My previous Lhaesine word for "to" was "ura". That's now too close to my word for "from". My new word is one syllable.
My previous Lhaesine word for "to" was "ura". That's now too close to my word for "from". My new word is one syllable.
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