Showing posts with label foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foods. Show all posts

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Flour, in my words + flours

melfar : flour

The Illunse word for flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains) is melfar. Melfar is a very rare last name. Melfar is the local dialect shortened name of the town Middelfart in Denmark.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for flour, melu (meal, flour), and the Latin word for flour, farina (flour, meal).

This is a new word.

melfara : flours

The Illunse word for flours (nominative plural) is melfara. Melfara is a very rare last name.

Flours in Latin is farinae. Flours in Old English is melwas.

Sunday, March 09, 2014

Bean, in my words + beans

beab : bean

The Illunse word for bean is beab. Beab is a rare last name. Beab is a rare first name. BEAB is an acronym for British Electrotechnical Approvals Board.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for bean, béan (bean, pea, legume), and the Latin word for bean, faba (a bean, fava bean or broad bean).

This is a new word.

beaba : beans

The Illunse word for beans (nominative plural) is beaba. Beaba is a rare last name. Beaba is a rare first name. Beaba is the French manufacturer of the Babycook Baby Food Maker. Beaba is the name of a place in the Congo.

Beans in Latin is fabae. Beans in Old English is béana.

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Juice, in my words + juices

swus : juice

The Illunse word for juice is swus. Swus is a very rare last name. For airlines, SWUs are Systemwide Upgrades.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for juice, wós (juice, sap; moisture), (also seáw (sap, juice; moisture), and the Latin word for juice, sucus (juice; sap; moisture).

This is a new word.

swusas : juices

The Illunse word for juices (nominative plural) is swusas.

Juices in Latin is suci. Juices in Old English is wós (same as the singular) (also séawas).

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Orange, in my words + oranges

arenge : orange

The Illunse word for orange is arenge. Arenge is a rare last name. Arenge is a very rare first name. Arenge Grand Prix cart Race in Japan. Similar Areng is the name of places in Indonesia.

This word is a mixture of the Middle English (and Anglo-Norman) word for orange, orenge, and the Latin word for orange, arantium. There's no word in orange in Old English.

This is a new word. It's for orange, the fruit. I'm unsure if I want it to also be used for the color orange.

arengan : oranges

The Illunse word for oranges (nominative plural) is arengan. Arengan is a rare last name. In Spanish arengan is conjugations of the verb arengar which means to harangue. Arengan is the name of a village in Iran.

Oranges in Latin is arantia. I'm unsure of the word for oranges in Middle English.

Saturday, December 07, 2013

Berry, in my words + berries

barie : berry

The Illunse word for berry is barie. Barie is an unusual last name. Barie is an unusual to rare first name that can be feminine or masculine. Barie is the name of a town in southwestern France.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for berry, berie (or berige) (a berry; grape), and the Latin word for berry, baca (or bacca) (berry, fruit of tree/shrub).

This is a new word. The picture shows redcurrant berries.

barian : berries

The Illunse word for berries (nominative plural) is barian. Barian is a rare last name. Barian is a rare masculine first name. In Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal there's a Barian species of humanoids. Barian is the name of a town in northern Pakistan.

Berries in Latin is bacae. Berries in Old English is berian.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Milk, in my words + milks

leoc : milk

The Illunse word for milk is leoc. Leoc is a rare last name. Leoc is rare first name which may be short for Leocadia or Leocadio. LEOC is a Japanese catering service company. LEOC is the airport code for Ocaña, Spain.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for milk, meolc (milk; giving milk), and the Latin word for milk, lac.

I've change this word. My previous word for milk was lema. I decided that I wanted to end this word in c.

leoca : milks

The Illunse word for milks (nominative plural) is leoca. Leoca is a rare last name. Leoca is a rare first which may be short for Leocadia or Leocadio. LEOCA Paris is a French fashion house for children.

Milks in Latin is lacta. Milks in Old English is meolc (same as the singular).

Saturday, November 16, 2013

Butter, in my words + butters

butyre : butter

The Illunse word for butter is butyre. Butyre is a very rare last name. Butyre is a variation of the Old English word for butter, butere. Similar Butyri is the name of a place in Russia.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for butter, butere (butter, milk for butter-making), and the Latin word for butter, butyrum. The Old English word comes from Latin, that's why the words are so similar.

This is a new word.

butyran : butters

The Illunse word for butters (nominative plural) is butyran. Butyran is a very rare name. Similar butyramide is the amide of butyric acid, which was first found in butter.

Butters in Latin is butyra. Butters in Old English is buteran.

Saturday, November 09, 2013

Egg, in my words + eggs

oeg : egg

The Illunse word for egg is oeg. Oeg is a rare last name. The Old English Game (OEG) is a breed of chicken. The French word for egg is oeuf, which is somewhat similar.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for egg, æg (which I transliterate to aeg), and the Latin word for egg, ovum.

This is the current word for egg. The odd OE vowel combination exists in Latin, and it's pronounced like OI.

oega : eggs

The Illunse word for eggs (nominative plural) is oega. Oega is a rare last name. Oega is a rare first name. Oega is the name of a place in Papua New Guinea. Similar Oega-ch'on is the name of a place in South Korea.

Eggs in Latin is ova. Eggs in Old English is ægru or æg.

The nominative plural is new, and so is the picture of eggs.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Honey, in my words + honeys

humel : honey

The Illunse word for honey is humel. Humel is an unusual to uncommon last name. Humel is a rare usually masculine first name. In German similar hummel means bumblebee. Similar Humele is the name of a place in Romania.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for honey, hunig, and the Latin word for honey, mel.

humela : honeys

The Illunse word for honeys (nom. plural) is humela. Humela is a very rare last name.

Honeys in Latin is mella. Honeys in Old English is hunig (same as the singular).

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Cheese, in my words + cheeses

cys : cheese

The Illunse word for cheese is cys. Cys is a rare last name. Cys is a very rare first name. In Albanian cys means to poke, prod or goad. Cys (aka Cys-la-Commune) is a place in the Picardy region of France.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for cheese, cýse, and the Latin word for cheese, caseus.

cysas : cheeses

The Illunse word for cheeses (nom. plural) is cysas. Cysas is a very rare last name.

Cheeses in Latin is casei. Cheeses in Old English is cýseas.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Bread, in my words + breads

palf : bread

The Illunse word for bread is palf. Palf is a rare last name. Palf is a very rare masculine first name. In Welsh palf means palm (of an anchor, aka fluke) or paw. Palf Lake in Saskatchewan, Canada.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for bread hláf (bread, food, a loaf), and the Latin word for bread panis (bread, loaf; (figuratively) food or nourishment).

This is a new word, and my first post in months!

palfas : breads

The Illunse word for breads (nom. plural) is palfas. Palfas is a very rare last name.

Breads in Latin is panes. Breads in Old English is hláfas.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Wheat, in my words + wheats

twite : wheat

The Illunse word for wheat is twite. The twite is a small songbird, a Eurasian finch. Twite is an unusual to uncommon last name. Twite is a rare first name. Twite is the name of a place in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for wheat which is hwǽte (wheat, corn) (which I transliterate to hwaete), and the Latin word for wheat which is triticum (wheat, a kind of grain).

This is a new word.

twitan : wheats

The Illunse word for wheats is twitan. Twitan is a very rare last name.

Wheats in Latin is tritica. Wheats in Old English is hwæteas.

Saturday, May 04, 2013

Apple, in my words + apples

maelp : apple

The Illunse word for apple is maelp. MAELP is an acronym for Master in European Law and Policy.

This word is a mixture of the Old English word for apple which is æppel (apple, any kind of fruit, fruit in general) (which I transliterate to aeppel), and the Latin word for apple which is malum (apple; fruit).

This is a new word.

maelpa : apples

The Illunse word for apples is maelpa. Maelpa Global Work S.L. of Spain.

Apples in Latin is mala. Apples in Old English is æppela.