Monday, June 28, 2010

sister

gesta : sister

The Tarijan word for sister is gesta. Gesta is a last name. Gesta is a genus of butterfly.

In other languages:
In Latin gesta means deeds.

International locations:
Gesta is the name of cities in Ethiopia, Spain and Sweden.

How I came up with this word:
Gesta is a mixture of the transliterated word for sister in Mongolian which is egch (эгч), and the transliterated word for sister in Russian which is sestra (сестра).

In my other conlangs:
The Miresua word for sister is ahisa.
The Lhaesine word for sister is perhin.