Fictional Word Definitions/Etymologies
Last updated: Thursday June 3rd, 2021
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Introduction
There are a lot of words in the English language. 470,000, in fact. In this blog, a select few words will be turned into words with different meanings and/or etymologies. Don't understand what I mean? You will ... hopefully.
Word Analysis
As stated before, here are some words that we are going to create new definitions and sometimes etymologies for words. So ... let's get started:
Sublime: This one is obvious. The prefix "sub-" means "under," so sublime clearly means "slightly less astonishing than if limes conquered the world." Come on, what did you think it meant?
Amazing: In the real world, this means essentially the same. But, now that limes are conquering the world, this also means something entirely different. The "mazing" part of it means "willing to go into a maze," in essence, and the prefix "a-" means "not," such as in the cases of atypical and atheism. Thus, amazing means "not able to partake in a maze," or something like that. Makes total sense, right?
Hypothermia: Whoever created this word was very clever and sneaky. "Thermia" sounds like it's descended from "thermal," which relates it to heat. But not in this case. Thermia is a genus of air-breathing land snails, and "hypo" is clearly just a way of masking "hyper," so, evidently, hypothermia means "the fateful attack of hyperactive land snails." Not the bogus definition that it's an "abnormally and dangerously low body temperature."
Sorry, I don't have more, but you must understand it is hard to find words to reinvent definitions for. There is strict criteria. So I humbly request that you suggest at least one word that I can recreate a definition for. Please do not comment on this blog without suggesting at least one word. Other than that, catch you next time!
Suggestions
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