Friday, February 23, 2024

A Generator for New Words, Or: Automatically Grafting Prefixes and Suffixes Garned from Wikitionary

Special thanks to friend of the blog Rook for coming up with this idea. Caution: some words generated may already exist.

If you'd like to do some combinatorialization of your own, click the links below:
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/English_prefixes#English
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:RandomInCategory/English_suffixes#English

To generate a word here, click the button below:



Special thanks to Spwack for making the generator generator used for this post: https://slightadjustments.blogspot.com/p/generator.html

3 comments:

  1. Oh this is good.

    A few of my favorites so far:
    infranym (the name below)
    ambisonia (wisdom of both, this is what gives me decision paralysis)
    chromogamy (marriage of colors)
    astroscribe (star write)
    deuterlogue (second speech - refers to a monologue that is a response to a monologue in a kind of call and answer)
    ectocracy (rule by outsiders)

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  2. Ophiometer: a device for measuring the length of snakes

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