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