Re: New Words

Abrigon Gusiq sikyal:

> New words seem to come from a variety of sources
>
> Old word that may have included the new meaning. But now the word is
> more specific.
>
> A persons name, often the person who invented it.
>
> Shortening of an older name/word that often was more than one syllable
> and composite. Like Being becomming Bein.
Is "bein" an English word? Or do you mean "bein'", the American short
form?

> Lazy mouths, sort of a varietion of the old Germanic shift? Where a word
> becomes another word cause the new way is easier.
This doesn't really make new words, just new ways of pronouncing old
words. Although if the old word, or a variant pronunciation, survives, you
can get interesting pairs like shirt/skirt. English and the Romance
languages are full of this.

> Saying words to impress or to set one self off from others.. Snooty if
> you like..
This doesn't work with truly new words. Only existing words that have high
prestige.

> Natural contruction, like using a three part base of a word. Arabic
> using like lsm but depending on where  it is at, and context, it could
> be Islam, or Muslim, with additions of pre and suffix. Bismallah = Bsm
> with LLh or what?
>
> Out of the air cause they sounds cool. Kids love to do this, as well as
> some branches of science are famous for it.
Actually quite rare, except for the occasional onomatopoetic form.

> Using an ancient likely dead language for the basic root of the word,
> even if the word has changed, it just sounds/looks old..
>
> Sounds, YAPP, sounds like a Yapp, sort of..
>
> Abbreviations, such as using For use of Carnal Knowledge = FUCK (now a
> nasty word, but not always so?). Unless there is actually an older
> Germanice word like GeFuchen = the act of sex?
Yep, "fuck" goes back to an old germanic root. It's an ancient and
long-described thing, fucking.

> What other ways are words created?
Perhaps the most productive of all ways: borrowing.



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