Words you made up for your story

Leyelle 2024-05-04 13:41:40 UTC #1

I have a couple i've "invented" for the story, that make sense in context. They are usually portmanteaus of existing words, or used to convey a sound more than an actual word, examples:

squooze: it means to squeeze something out of a bottle or tube, but specifically something that's kind of oozy or goopy, like toothpaste or acrylic paint.

Shedding my jacket and tossing it onto one of the rainbow-ish cushions, I squooze blue and yellow from the tubes. The colors blur before my eyes.

And one coming soon:

Now seems like a good time for an eros-estential crisis -

Eros-estential is being used as a play on "existential," to represent any sort of romantic crisis where you start to doubt feelings or why you're in a relationship with someone.

MK_Wizard 2024-05-04 14:00:50 UTC #2

For Psychoborg, you'll find a lot of made up mythological creatures like mowls (mole-owl gryphons), deerzelles (dryad like gazelles) and hoppatiels (rabbit-cockatiel gryphons).

For Cupcake War Machine, Warrick's arm is called an armsenal which is a play upon the word "arsenal" because it is an arm that works like an arsenal or in his case, a kitchen.

For MK's Frankenstein, I don't want to give away too much, but a creature known as a homuncumorph comes up which is basically Dollar Store quality version of a homunculus.

For Word is the Bird, I don't know if it counts, but roombas are called Room-E.

Leyelle 2024-05-04 14:04:02 UTC #3

this sounds really interesting.

I actually have a creature made up in a story of mine called a Tiparr. They are brightly colored, striped parrots. Their name is an abbreviation of "Tiger Parrot"

sevenstarsofeightIam 2024-05-04 14:07:05 UTC #4

Hi, Leyelle. You have a way with words. In my series of adventures, beginning with The Space Bum, I try to avoid things I have to explain, but there are two exceptions that come to mind. Besh is the main character's name, and that is due to combining the initials of his real name, Besh stands for Ben Edward Shuller.

There is a scene where Besh finally finds his missing nephew, Albert. Besh is a captive, tied and blindfolded. He has asked to see his nephew, and Albert comes, but does not believe, so he asked Besh a question only Besh would know the answer to. Albert asks him, so, how are things.

Besh thinks and remembers a play on words from Albert's childhood, when asked the same thing, Besh would say "Everything is Copenhagen," instead of saying, "Everything is copacetic."

Leyelle 2024-05-04 14:09:44 UTC #5

I had to Google this word XD. Learn something new everyday. Is Besh a nickname he mad up for himself or that someone else made?

Thank you XD.

2DLenzy 2024-05-04 18:46:31 UTC #6

I'm trying to come up with a few (more like dozens) of terms for the fowlian language
Main terms, first three derived from Egyptian terms

HA- body, also physical entities
KA- soul/spirit
LA- Name(like the Egyptian concept)

Others somewhat derived from languages:

Ra/Rah - Blood, lifeforce (Red Order specific) - Balinese?
*SHA - shadow (made up by me)
*Kaw = "to end" (made up by me)

And cognates, where I really get creative:

*Karah-Kaw = KA+RAH+KAW = "soul" + "blood" + "to end" = Hell

*Kalla = world (made up by me)

*Ha-Kalla = Earth
*Sha-Kalla = netherworld
*Ka-Kalla = spirit world (particularily heaven(Aroo) or Hell (Karah-Kah)

*HA-LA-KA - holy script that acts as a code of conduct, and a cognate of the first three terms.

Yup, it gets kinda deep in experimenting with these few terms, expect a dictionary real soon XD
There's a ton more I'm figuring out, but I do my best to use context to explain it to readers.

Leyelle 2024-05-04 19:40:20 UTC #7

about to become the Tolkein of chicken books

Leyelle 2024-05-26 23:43:27 UTC #8

So in "Rigamarole" section 5 I create the word "Doggishly."

So "doggedly" is a word, which means as if you're being berated or pestered into doing something.

"Doggishly" means to do something in a dog-like way. In the story's context, it means to follow obediently, like a dog who has been scolded or mistreated.

Riley’s waiting for me just outside room 202 like an ill-used puppy. He looks up with an expression I’ll call relief if it makes anyone feel better - a particle of relief smaller than the flake of somebody’s body glitter he grinds into the floor with the toe of his sneaker-

“Let’s go.”

He follows me doggishly - doggedly, though I haven’t said anything - yet - until we find our corner in the lunchroom.

We could have gone outside…maybe…

We look normal.

But it’s easier to pressure - persuade him - when he’s worried about me getting too loud - drawing somebody’s attention.

I swear we look normal.

It’s not a problem. Just a brother and sister having lunch.

“As long as you don’t act up. No one will look this way.”

I can’t tell if I’m an angel or a demon. His savior, or just one more thread in the puppet strings-

(this chapter is available for free for everyone to read on my Patreon public posts

Glofernwolfe 2024-05-27 00:17:56 UTC #9

Autoichorium is a word I made up for my story.

Well it's more of a technical term, unlike what you've described for "squooze" (which I like very much)

Autichorium is the blood of Astraleids that contains vapourous biomechanical bots. I haven't explained it in the book yet but I have in my comics.

Leyelle 2024-05-27 00:22:19 UTC #10

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Leyelle 2024-05-27 00:26:18 UTC #11

Wow that sounds so complicated and sci-fi lol. I made one new word with a sci-fi piece I made last week, but it's just the name of a species. Oh technically two. The second is "dragonism"

Glofernwolfe 2024-05-27 01:20:52 UTC #12

Dragonism sounds cool. What's the first?

Leyelle 2024-05-27 01:21:42 UTC #13

Sxin. It's the name of these dragon-like beings that live on modern day earth

skidiggy 2024-05-27 02:09:04 UTC #14

Ooh, I have lots of made-up words for Apparent Secrets. Each of the planets that the roommates are from are new words, same with species names. For example, "Paxoram" is a combination of the Latin word "Pax" (peace) and Japanese "Sora" (sky).

Another one that gets used frequently is "watch-mate." A watch-mate is a member of a Paxoram pair or polycule that agrees to take a partial night watch to protect against nocturnal predators. The more watch-mates in a group, the shorter the shifts.

Leyelle 2024-05-27 16:49:32 UTC #15

a watch-mate definitely sounds helpful to have lol

rkignazio 2024-05-27 18:55:19 UTC #16

Hey, I love "doggishly"!

My comic, Enoch: The First City, is a fantasy adventure based on ancient mythology, but I hate needing a glossary when I read a fantasy novel, so I try to make up as few words as possible. But sometimes it's unavoidable. Here are a few of mine:

nefalim: a race of people named after the nephilim in the Bible. They're tall and wiry, with white specks on their faces, and forced to live in a ghetto on the outskirts of their city.
saltspeck: an offensive name for the nefalim, named after the salt flats where they're forced to work
ark: OK, this word exists, but it means something very different here. It's a flying ship, which a nefalim thief steals when he takes revenge on the city's rulers

silenthisper 2024-05-27 20:16:29 UTC #17

I think it would have to be my book title: Revnium! It is a play on words with requiem. And if you search it, requiem means an act of remembrance for a person long gone. For Revnium- I made it within another word in mind and combined it with this one - revenant. Basically, even if one comes back from the dead and has a second chance in life, how would you carry on with this burden on your shoulders? Every choice you make has a price to be paid, a consequence lingering later on in life. How would the people around you remember you even if you are very much alive but dead to them?

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Do you ever wonder where we go while we sleep? Revnium takes place in a seemingly tranquil land where people gather from all walks of life... A place where lost memories can be found. However, this place is solely maintained by a girl with an enchanted quill who stands in the fragile veil between these two worlds. Determined to record and make known the symphonies of the countless travellers who have traversed the land. Who knows? Your symphony may be lying in wait amongst her collection...

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skidiggy 2024-05-28 00:41:29 UTC #18

Essential for life on the harsh world of Zhalterra, for sure. Also, kinda nice for Earth too.

Leyelle 2024-05-28 00:44:43 UTC #19

Yeah, I mean there are probably terms like that or were already for soldiers and guards in the past, since being a part of 'the watch' has been a thing for a long time. I don't know what they'd be called tho

skidiggy 2024-05-28 00:48:39 UTC #20

I bet. Folks have had to be crafty during wartime. Hopefully, they're not being hunted by Zhalterran bog crawlers or crystal beasts.