How do you make sure the word you create doesn’t already exist? I can get pretty deep into the wordplay nerdery. The way it’s pronounced (tick lock) refers to the word as well. That one is actually an acronym for “the insatiable crocodile hunts what’s left of Captain Hook,” a reference to Peter Pan.
I have another definition, “tichloch,” which is the feeling that you don’t know how much time you have left on this earth. But often, that’s not quite enough, and I have to get creative in other ways. Once I find a hook like that, I can then dive into real dictionaries in those languages and try to piece something together in a creative way. I found the Latin root immerens, which means undeserving, and expanded it from there to “immerensis”. As hard as you may try to wrap your mind around the idea, it’s impossible to understand. For example, “immerensis,” which is the feeling that you don’t understand why someone loves you. You can get a sense of how many ways there are to express things in language.
The advantage there is that they have translations of a ton of words in different languages: Icelandic, Finnish, and Greek-some of my favorites- and a ton of other languages from around the world. Often, it starts with a Wiktionary, the dictionary that’s run by the Wikimedia Foundation. It’s just a matter of diving into the research and looking for something that speaks to me, a hook.
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