protologism
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Coined by Mikhail Epstein (and adopted by the Wiktionary community) from Greek protos, first + Greek logos, word, by analogy with prototype and neologism.
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protologism (plural protologisms)
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A newly coined word or phrase defined in the hope that it will become accepted into the language; a recently created term possibly in narrow use but not yet in general use.
- 2005 February 15, Steve Gooch, Ceci n'est pas une cybercarnet., at mentalspigot.com [1]
- Finally, a protologism for one of my favorite activities.
- 2005, Geoffrey D. Falk, Stripping the Gurus, Appendix IV, Million Monkeys Press
- spoofs that I incorporated in this essay: ... coined a neologism/protologism
- 2006 February 7, Scott Fletcher, “Podfaders in Wired Magazine”, Podcheck Review [2]
- If you're...a member of the Wikipedia police, the word “podfade” is merely neologistic protologism, not suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia.
- 2006 March 15, Ian Morrison, “Tom Weir”, soc.culture.scottish, Usenet
- I think it is very cheeky to suggest that *our* word is a protologism when the word "protologism" itself was only invented a month ago.
- 2006 September 12, Dwight “The Troubled Teen”, “Vocab Vacuum”, Ruminations of a Misspent Youth, at dwightthetroubledteen.blogspot.com [3]
- So what's the word for.... I need a good Sniglet or protologism.
- 2006 December 16, Kevin Doran, "Poem in elimae", Kevin Doran [4]
- it's a visual pun, portmanteau (of sorts), and protologism.
- 2005 February 15, Steve Gooch, Ceci n'est pas une cybercarnet., at mentalspigot.com [1]
[edit] See also
- Wiktionary:Protologisms -- Definition, guidelines, and criteria for inclusion.
- Wiktionary:List of protologisms. The list may be expanded, but articles should not be created for protologisms.
- List of protologisms by topic
- Category:Protologisms where full articles erroneously exist.

