“Neo” from the Greek is new.
“Logos” from the Greek is word.
Put them together and what do you get?
neologism
So what better place to end our month of celebrating words. Yes, that’s right, we made up words… such fun!
I began the lesson introducing the group to three suffixes and some common examples:
» cosm
[From Greek kosmos, order, universe.]
Universe; world
microcosm, macrocosm
» esque
[F., fr. It. -isco. Cf. –ish.]
An adjective suffix indicating manner or style
Arabesque, Romanesque
» ism
[Greek -ismos, -isma noun suffix]
A suffix used to form action nouns from verbs, distinctive doctrine, system, or theory
skepticism, truism
…and then I set them free. Here are some of my favorites:
appleism
buttonism
TVism
s-e-e-ism
explosionism
snickerism
pencilesque
tablesque
windesque
awesomesque
wafflesque
bubblesque
ballooncosm
bordomcosm
battlecosm
bouncehousecosm
writercosm
lollycosm
Lewis Caroll had the right idea. Words are Jabberwocky.
Count the neologisms.
– Kim