Orluvoq

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American who lived in Denmark for a couple years. I'm in interested in all languages, but time is unaccommodating, so my current studies point toward Latin and its romantic children. In addition to the languages enumerated in my Babel board, I have spent some time on Chinese, Russian, and Hebrew.

Wordsmithy

I have a terrible fondness for coining new words, so here are a few.

A

abā/abab (Latin preposition)

1. (indicating ablation) away from immediately

   Necesse est proficīscī abab hōc oppidō

   It is necessary to depart from this city immediately

2. (indicating agency or instrumentality) strictly by means of

   Hōc opus factum est abā fīliō meō

   This was was done by my son and my son alone

3. (indicating association) to/with in the slightest

   Homō sum, hūmānī nihil abā me aliēnum putō

   I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me whatsoever

Reduplication of ab + ā

ascorn (adjective)

1. caused to be disdainful

Used in the phrase "to set someone ascorn"

A scowl crossed her face as the meager results set her ascorn

B

biscotheque

1. cookie jar

From biscuit + θήκη ("box, chest")

bloint

1. the middle portion of pizza toppings not attached to any one slice

From trying to say blunt and joint at the same time

Dude, this pizza's got a bloint gazebo

C

charuglierie

1. an unappealing charcuterie spread

From charcuterie with uglier substituted for cuter

choosard

1. one who chooses/must choose

From choose + -ard

I am not the choosard; it is not my hesitation which holds us hostage

conniptioner

1. mage who performs magic by working themselves into a frothy rage; the mage equivalent of a berserker

From conniption + -er

D

detritivore

1. someone who performs anilingus

From detritivore ("bottom feeder")

dietrrhea

1. incontinence which causes weight loss

From diet + diarrhea

E

ectocardesmus

1. the state of being unable to stop loving someone who doesn't love you back; unrequited love

From ecto- + -cardia + δεσμός ("bond, imprisonment, charm"), lit. "imprisoned outside the heart"

F

femtodesy (noun), femtodesic (adjective)

1. nuclear fission (noun), fissile (adjective)

From femto- (from femtometer, the size of a uranium atom) + δαίω meaning both split and burn

fingerwalk

1. to slowly move the hand with the fingers in a walking motion

Inspired by tiptoe

A handful of chills fingerwalked their way up her spine

flamboy

1. a male who likes to dress and/or act in a flashy, flamboyant, feminine manner without being homosexual

From flamboyant + tomboy

No, he doesn't like boys, he's just a flamboy

G

gilter

1. to gild with a glow of gold

May we ever nestle in these giltered dreams

glorygrasper

1. one who chases after social standing and power, usually with little regard for others; clout shark

gravewhile

1. something that occurs while one is in the grave; posthumous

From grave + while

Her gravewhile moans reach up through the floorboards, driving us all toward madness

gruesify

1. to work horrors upon
2. to cause someone/something to be gruesome

From gruesome + -ify

You who have gruesified millions seek to be seen as more than terror incarnate?

gyrostasis

1. a state of putting in effort but making no progress; the state of spinning one's wheels

From gyro- + stasis; different from the physics study of rotating bodies, gyrostatics

H

hintermind

1. subconscious or unconscious mind

From hinter- + mind

I

infrablack

1. the molten anti-black you see when rubbing your eyes, after staring at the sun, or during a migraine

From infra- + black; in a similar category to eigengrau

L

larm

1. loud noise, din

From alarm; similar to Danish larm, but with an emphasis on the unpleasantness of the noise

Ye sky-larm hell-birds, may ye fall from heaven's breast!

M

mellonostalgia

1. bittersweet homesickness for a future you will never walk

From μέλλον ("future") + nostalgia ("homesickness")

The passing scent of juniper and pine drenched me in a mellonostalgia so thick, I thought I might content myself to freeze within its amber hold

miserate

1. to lament

Back-formation from commiserate, removing the sympathetic aspect com-; from Latin miseror

morrowmorn

1. the coming morning

From morrow + morn; ironic in that they're both archaic terms for morning

Morrowmorn, oh morrowmorn
Hasten to me now
I fear what tricks the dark might play
The wolves with which my heart might howl

N

niffle

1. to laugh by only blowing air out the nose

From sound association to sniffle

O

outmarch

1. foreign; something outside a border

From out- + march ("border region")

These outmarch manufactories are outpacing our manufacturing

P

prestivocitation

1. sleight of voice, guile, being silver-tongued; achieving some end by using (spoken) words alone
2. wordplay, paronomasia
3. being quick-witted; ability to quickly and consistently turn phrases

From French preste (“nimble, quick”) +‎ Latin vox (“voice”) +‎ French -ation (process suffix); compare prestidigitation

When wooing women, prestivocitation precedes prestidigitation

Ware thou the prestivociteur in our midst, lest thou findest thy purse as light as thy mood

prostropaic

1. inviting evil

From προσ- (toward) + τρόπος (turn); compare apotropaic

The prostropaic sigils were carved into her very skin as she slept!

S

scurven

1. hateful, cretinous, cowardly, but dangerous

from scurvy + craven

Yet again our scurven foe has reared his horrid head

snackadillo

1. an amount of food, usually between meals, that you should not have eaten

From snack + peccadillo ("small sin")

soo (adverb)

1. to the extent that
2. very

This is the replacement for the intensifier (not conjunction) so, analogous to how we have to and too

So, that was soo crazy!

I can only throw it soo far

spookums

1. a term of endearment for goths and Halloween enthusiasts

From spook + snookums

sweveneer

1. one who dreams dreams or sees visions
2. one who causes others to dream or see visions

From sweven + -eer; one phoneme off souvenir, which is French for "remember", hinting that the visions you receive are merely secrets you've forgotten

Come, let us visit the sweveneer and rid you of these shallow visions

T

twither

1. to stutter as one sighs

From twitch + wither

As the beast locked eyes with me, I twithered out a breath

U

uggle

1. to forge with ugliness

This differs from the obsolete uggle, meaning to make something (that already exists) dirty. This meaning implies ugliness woven into the very fibers of the subject's being.

Their uggled faces kindle naught but the basest hatred in my belly

V

vertext

1. a text that causes a paradigm shift; a seminal work in written form

From vertex + text

Dante's Comedia was a vertext in both the popular conception of hell and the Italian language

W

wam, wart, wis, ware

1. past imperfect conjugations of to be

Used to indicate an unfinished past state. "I was a student" implies that you are no longer a student while "I wam a student" implies that though the story is in the past, you are still a student.

Proposed Imperfect of "to be"

	Singular	Plural
First	wam	ware
Second	wart	ware
Third	wis	ware

Y

yesmonger

1. yes man (subordinate to superior)
2. authority who easily grants permission

Of course she asked grandpa, he's such a yesmonger