Some ways of making new words

Affixes

Can you think of affixes that are on their way to becoming full-fledged new word?

Acronyms

fubar gives rise to foo and bar, used in Lisp programming circles as default names for files
Related to acronyms formed simultaneously with the corresponding full form: emoji - perhaps created because of the (non-etymological) link with emotion

Blends

Blends aren't all new.
- 1533 thwack (the same root as touch, tactile, tactic plus the w of whack)
Have blends become more common? Let's see if we can find out by going through an ordinary day and listing "new" words (words that wouldn't have been around when your parents were growing up).

Commonization

It's fine to think of this as a type of metonym (that is, semantic change) rather than word creation properly speaking.

People
- Molotov cocktail
- raglan shoulder from Lord Raglan
Places
What are the place names underlying the words at the end of p. 271 of this week's reading (I've added one or two that occurred to me), and what's the connection between the place and the derived meaning?
- arras
- babel
- bayonet
- bedlam
- bourbon
- billingsgate
- blarney
- buncombe
- calico
- cashmere
- champagne
- cheddar
- china
- cologne
- copper
- damascene
- damask
- damson
- denim
- Florentine (food)
- frank(furter)
- grubstreet
- guinea
- homburg (hat)
- java
- jeans
- laconic
- limerick
- limousine
- mackinaw
- Madeira
- madras
- magnesia
- mayonnaise
- meander
- milliner
- morocco
- oxford (shoe or basket-weave cotton shirting)
- panama (hat)
- roman (type)
- romance
- sardonic
- sauterne
- shanghai
- shantung
- sherry
- sicilienne (added)
- sodomy
- spaniel
- spartan
- stogy
- stygian
- suede
- tabasco
- turkey
- tuxedo
- utopia
- wiener
- worsted (I thought people were "worsting" yarn...)

Idiosyncratic word formation

Some words for undoing knitting
- frog (because apparently frogs make a sound that sounds like the next word)
- rip (extending sense of already existing word)
- unravel (with etymologically unmotivated un-)
- tink (mystery formation - Hint: This word was created by knitters who were also computer programmers!)
iff < if
dethaw, unthaw

Texting

imho, and then imao
lol
....

Make vs. take

English German Dutch Danish
chocolate Schokolade chocolade chokolade
coffee Kaffee koffie kaffe
tea Tee thee te
corn, maize, (Indian) corn Mais maïs majs
cotton Baum-wolle 'tree wool' katoen bom-uld 'tree wool'
orange (fruit) Apfel-sine 'apple-China', Orange appel-sien 'apple-China' appel-sin 'apple-China'
potato Kartoffel, Erd-apfel 'earth apple' aard-appel 'earth apple' kartoffel
kangaroo Känguru kangoeroe kaenguru
opossum Beutel-ratte 'bag rat', Opossum opossum opossum
raccoon Wasch-bär 'wash bear' was-ber 'wash bear' vaske-bjørn 'wash bear'
Borrowings 10 7 (+2) 8 8
Compounds (1) 3 (+1) 2 2
Semantic change (1) 0 0 0

	English	German	Dutch	Danish
	chocolate	Schokolade	chocolade	chokolade
	coffee	Kaffee	koffie	kaffe
	tea	Tee	thee	te
	corn, maize, (Indian) corn	Mais	maïs	majs
	cotton	Baum-wolle 'tree wool'	katoen	bom-uld 'tree wool'
	orange (fruit)	Apfel-sine 'apple-China', Orange	appel-sien 'apple-China'	appel-sin 'apple-China'
	potato	Kartoffel, Erd-apfel 'earth apple'	aard-appel 'earth apple'	kartoffel
	kangaroo	Känguru	kangoeroe	kaenguru
	opossum	Beutel-ratte 'bag rat', Opossum	opossum	opossum
	raccoon	Wasch-bär 'wash bear'	was-ber 'wash bear'	vaske-bjørn 'wash bear'
Borrowings	10	7 (+2)	8	8
Compounds	(1)	3 (+1)	2	2
Semantic change	(1)	0	0	0