wildwordlings

 

Below you find a growing number of scrolls 〰 lists of words, word elements, idioms, phrases, metaphors, names 〰 hives of wild wordlings.

Having flocked under the rustling flowers of the papyri they are easy for symbiophants to find and consult.

Many arrange themselves in alphabetical order it's in their blood 〰  some prefer to swarm free. They have their reasons.

 

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Greek wordlings

 

ag- [from agein = to lead, guide, drive, carry off]

agon – assembly, contest in the games

words containing 'ag-'

act, active and derivatives, agenda, agent, agitation, agony

ambiguous, antagonise, coagulate

exact, litigate, mitigate, navigate, strategy, synagogue

 

cene [kainos = new]

Anthropocene, Symbiocene

 

cœno [from koinos = common, general, ordinary public, shared]

cœnogamy = sharing partners

 

cosmo- [from Greel kosmos = order; kosmein = to arrange, put in order, prepare]

cosmetic, cosmic, cosmology

 

dys- bad, weak, difficult

dyspepsy, dysphoria, dystrophy

 

en- in, near, at, within

 

endo- internal, inside

 

gen - [genos = race, kind] [gignesthai = to become, happen]

 

gon [gonos = birth, offspring; gonia = begetting] may refer to generation, genealogy

 

gon, gony [gonia = corner, angle]

 

-ism [ismos = the practice of teaching something]

 

-ite [ites = connected with, belonging to]

 

-phant – keeper, guardian

hierophant, Symbiophant

 

tope, topic, topy [topos = place]

Symbiotope, dystopia, syntopia, utopia

 

trope, tropy [tropos = turning]

entropy, syntropy

 

Latin wordlings

ab- – off, away, from, in reference to relationships, space and time

abandon, absent, abduct, aborigine, abrupt, absorb, avert (before a word beginning with 'v' the 'b' is assimilated.

 

ad- – to, toward in space or time; with regard to, in relation to, in addition to; also used as a separate word. The 'd' is assimilated by other consonants, in combination with words begginning with 'c', 'f', 'g', 'l', 'n', 'p', 'r', 's', 't',

ad hoc, ad infinitum, ad nauseam

access, accumulate, accuse, achieve, adapt, address, adept, adhere, admit, addition, adore, advent, affiliate, aggravate, alleviate, ally, announce, appetite appropriate, arrive, assign, assure, attach, 

 

ante- – before. The 'e' can change to 'i' , and the whole prefix can be shortened, depending on the following word

anticipate, ancestor, antenna

 

anti- – against (not to be confused with the adapted form of 'ante-'), the 'i' can be dropped in front of words beginning with a vowel; sometimes written with a hyphen

antagonise (anti + agony), antalgic (anti + algia), antarctic, anti-bacterial, antibiotic, antibody, anticlimax, antidote, antioxidant, antipathy, antonym. 

 

circum- – around, round about; the 'm' and 'u', may be dropped in front of a word beginning with a vowel

circa, circuit, circumference, circumspect, circumstance

 

co-, col- com-, con- – together, with. (con-may also be a shortened form of 'contra-')

coalesce, co-dependent, coerce, cohabit, coherence, coil, coitus, cognition, coordinate, copilot, cost,

collaborate, collapse,  colleague, collect, college, collide, collude

companion, compare, compete, compute

concave, conception, concentrate, concert, conclude, concrete, condition, conduct, conference, confess, conflict, conform, confront, congestion, congratulate, congress, congruent, conjure, connect, conscience, conscious, consent, consider, consort, console, conspire, constrain,  construct, consult, contact, contemporary, content, contest, context, continent, continue,contract, contribute, convenient, conventional, conversation, convert, convoke, convolute, convoy

 

contra-, contro-  against, in opposition; can morph into 'count-' or 'counter-'

contraception, contract, contradict, contrary, contrast, control, controversy 

also: counter, country

 

de-

dis

inter-

intro

 

Germanic wordlings

-er, -or are suffixes with many meanings: (1) with adjectives they act as comparatives; (2) with nouns referring to people they describe habitual activities or professions; (3) or to objects, spaces, phenomena, and verbs which have habitual functions.

so we can say that -er/-or carry the meaning common, habitual, regular. They work as amplifyers or intensifiers of a rootword

(1) better - harder, cooler - warmer, darker - lighter, duller - glossier, lesser - lessor, nearer - further, prior, senior

(2) actor, ambassador, author, bachelor, beholder, composer, conductor, creator, doer, follower, gatherer, governor, hunter, insider, islander, keeper, laborer, outlier, sailor, slayer, thinker

(3) arbor, attractor, chamber, clatter, cooker, computer, danger, detonator, incubator, interior, fiver, flicker, freezer, frontier, glitter, goner, hardener, paper, pallor, power, quaver, sleeper, strimmer, stupor, theater, thunder, tower, transporter, valor 

 

be- – Old English + German, used in the sense of about, around; thoroughly, completely; to make, cause, seem; to provide with; at, on, to, for. The prefix 'be-' also has taken on some of the meanings of the German ge-

become, befall, begin, behave, behold, believe, belong, beloved, below, beneath, benight (= overtaken by darkness), bequeath, bestow, betray, beware, bewilder, bewitch, beyond 

 

ge- – prefix to create collective nouns and verbs expressing habitual action

geminate, gestalt, gesundheit (ge + sound)

 

-ly – from Germanic -lich, referring to likeness, sameness, similarity or affinity

all adverbs: evenly, fairly, likely, motherly

adjectives + nouns: bully, curly, daily, deadly, early, elderly, jolly, lively, loudly, lovely,

 

ur- – original, primeval

urbarium (a medieval register of fief ownership, including the rights and benefits that the fief holder has over his serfs and peasants; the German word 'urbar' = 'arable')

urheimat = ancestral home

urmensch = primeval human being

ursprache = original language

 

zeit- – referring to the contemporary period

zeitgeist, zeitgenosse, zeitnature, zeitword

 

slithery wordlings

boiled frog

clear as glass

cold-blooded

dull as ditchwater

fine as frog's hair

fish for compliments

fish out of water

frog in the throat

kettle of fish

let a frog out of one's mouth

like a frog in a hail storm

mad as a snake

mean as a striped snake

odd fish

polish the apple

reptilian

seeing snakes

silky smooth

slick as a whistle

slick as snot

slick as a sonnet

slippery as an eel

small fry

smooth as a baby's bottom

smooth operator

smooth sailing

smooth talking

snake oil

snake in the grass

viper in on'e bosom

you can't polish a turd

hirsute (= very hairy) wordlings

abortion

artificial intelligence

cannibalism

capitalism

chemtrails

conspiracism

consumerism

covidism

disableism

ethnocentrism

extremism

fake news

fanaticism

holocaust

homophopia

idiotism

incest

nationalism

paedophelia

pelvic floor issues

pharmaceutical scientism

political correctism

racism

rape

sexism

tribalism

trueism

 

 

 

 

 

winged wordlings

actions speak louder than words

at a loss for words

being as good as one's word

beyond words

break one's word

pearls before swine

waste words

choke on one's words

choose one's words

dirty word

word for word

eat one's words

famous last words

final word

fine words butter no parsnips

give one's word

go back on one's word

good word

have a word

hot potato

household word

put into words

keep one's word

last word

loaded word

lost for words

measure one's words

mince words

no words

a plate full of spaghetti

pearls of wisdom

put words in someone's mouth

spread the word

swallow one's words

twisted words

want of a better word

war of words

weigh one's words

word of mouth

 

Wisdom Trees

Banyan [India] 〰 made known by the Buddha as the Bodhi Tree

Baobab [Africa] 〰 made famous through Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince 

Bodhi [Buddhist] 〰 also known as Ficus religiosa, revered in India, Myanmar, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam

Cedar [Lebanon]

Dangsan Namu [Korea] 〰 also known as God Tree

Eej Mod [Mongolia] 〰 also known as Mother Tree

Eó Mugna, Bile Tortan, Eó Ruis, Craeb Daithí, and Craeb Ulisnig [Celtic] 〰 also known as Guardian Trees

Irminsul [Saxon] 〰 also known as Life Tree

Jewel-tree [Tibet] 〰 a wish-fulfilling tree, also called 'wishing tree' or 'prayer tree'

Kiso [Japan] 〰 five sacred trees: Hinoki cypress, Sawara cypress, kōyamaki or Japanese umbrella-pine, Japanese thuja, asunaro

Muhacha [Zimbabwe] 〰 also known as the Mobola Plum, the best wild fruit of Africa

Oak [Europe] 〰 revered by the ancient Greeks, Celts, Norse, Romans associated with the gods of thunder

Okoubaka [Yoruba] 〰 known as a Medicine Tree

Palo Santo [Inca] 〰 also known as Holy Wood

Red Cedar [Indigenous & Métis People of North America]

Seven Sacred Trees [Celts] 〰 Oak, Ash, Apple, Hazel, Alder, Alder, Yew

Shinboku [Japan] 〰 a holy tree or forest of the Shintu religion

Tamanu [Polynesia] 〰 associated with the god Ta’aroa

Tane Mahuta [Maori] 〰 a giant kauri tree, named after the Maori god of the forest

Tree of Knowledge [Judaeo-Christian] 〰 also known as Tree of Knowledge of Good & Evil, one of two forbidden Trees in the biblical Paradise

Tree of Life [Judaeo-Christian] 〰 the other forbidden Tree in the biblical Paradise

Tuba : طُوبَى [Islam] 〰 known as the Blessed Tree in the islamic Paradise

Uburu [Igbo] 〰 a sacred totem tree

Waang [Australia] 〰 sacred Sandalwood tree, also called Noongar, or Dutjahn

Ya'axche [Mayan] 〰 also known as Ceiba or Kapok Tree

Yaşam Ağacı  [Turkey] 〰 Sacred Beech of the Shamans, related to the Sky God Tengri

Yggdrasil  [Viking] 〰 the Cosmic Tree of the Norse, an enormous Ash that connects the nine worlds