Wednesday, December 19, 2007

silver

sergö : silver

The Tarijan word for silver is sergö.

Sergo is a uncommon last name. Sergo is a uncommon masculine first name that can be Georgian.

How I came up with this word:
Sergö is a mixture of the transliterated word for silver in Russian which is serebro (серебрo), and the transliterated word for silver in Mongolian which is möngö (мөнгө).

Thursday, December 6, 2007

gold

zalto : gold

The Tarijan word for gold is zalto.

Zalto DENK'ART wine glasses and stemware of Austria. Zalto can be a last name.

How I came up with this word:
Zalto is a mixture of the transliterated word for gold in Russian which is zoloto (золото), and the transliterated word for gold in Mongolian which is alt (алт) or altan (алтан).

Monday, November 26, 2007

gray

seryal : gray

The Tarijan word for the color gray is seryal.

Seryal is a first name.

International locations:
Seryal is the name of a town in Iran.

How I came up with this word:
Seryal is a mixture of the transliterated word for gray in Russian which is seryi or syerih (серый), and the transliterated word for gray in Mongolian which is saaral (саарал).

Saturday, October 27, 2007

green

zegoon : green

The Tarijan word for the color green is zegoon.

In other languages:
Zegoon possibly means something in Basque.

How I came up with this word:
Zegoon is a mixture of the transliterated word for green in Russian which is zelenyi or zilyonih (зеленый), and the transliterated word for green in Mongolian which is nogoon (ногоон).

Saturday, October 13, 2007

yellow

shali : yellow

The Tarijan word for the color yellow is shali.

International locations:
Shali is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia. The Egyptian ruins of Shali date back to the 13th century.

How I came up with this word:
Shali is a mixture of the transliterated word for yellow in Mongolian which is shar (шар), and the transliterated word for yellow in Russian which is zheltyi or zholtih (желтый).

Saturday, October 6, 2007

white

tsebal : white

The Tarijan word for the color white is tsebal.

Tsabel is a rare term which I could not find in another language or as an international location. May be a user name on Russian webpages.

How I came up with this word:
Tsebal is a mixture of the transliterated word for white in Mongolian which is tsagaan (цагаан), and the transliterated word for white in Russian which is belyi or byelih (белый).

Friday, October 5, 2007

red

uskaan : red

The Tarijan word for the color red is uskaan.

Uskaan Tekstil Ltd. is a Turkish textile company.

How I came up with this word:
Uskaan is a mixture of the transliterated word for red in Mongolian which is ulaan (улаан), and the transliterated word for red in Russian which is krasnyi or krasnih (красный).

Thursday, September 27, 2007

black

charn : black

The Tarijan word for the color black is charn.

Charn is a ruined fictional realm in C. S. Lewis's book The Magician's Nephew, one of the Chronicles of Narnia.

In other languages:
Charn means means "flesh, meat" in Romansch, a uncommon language of Switzerland.

How I came up with this word:
Charn is a mixture of the transliterated word for black in Russian which is chernyi or chornih (черный), and the transliterated word for black in Mongolian which is khar (хар).

Friday, September 21, 2007

nui : no

The Tarijan word for no is nui.

In other languages:
nui means "club, truncheon" in Estonian; means "injured" in French; means "big" in Hawaiian; means "big, important, large, many" in Maori; means "us" in Sicilian.

International locations:
Nui is a district in the Polynesian island nation of Tuvalu and a small city in the Chechenskaya Respublika region of the Russian Federation. Nui is the first part of the name of a number of cities in Vietnam. Easter Island is also called Rapa Nui.

Friday, September 14, 2007

yes

dii : yes

The Tarijan word for yes is dii.

In other languages:
dii means "all day" in Dawida (a language of Kenya); means "you" in Saami (a language of Lapland); means "this" in Sinkyone (a California Athabascan language).

International locations:
Dii is a place in Liberia.