|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 1
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Aug 2016
Posts: 1 |
Hello Wordsmithers, I'm an artist currently working on a project that would benefit from a kind of antonym for the word "anniversary" – the idea being that this word would mean something like "a date that commemorates an event that will happen in the future". I suppose it's a little like a countdown, but the idea would be that this word could refer to (for example) a day exactly 10 years before something happens.
I think it would work best if the word was constructed with plausible etymology, and should at least sound like it's a real word. Then again, I'm open to all ideas – perhaps the rule is simply that if it sounds right, it is right.
The project launches in a couple of months and I'd love to hear from anyone who fancies having a crack at this before then!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 1
stranger
|
|
stranger
Joined: Sep 2017
Posts: 1 |
Well . . . that is a challenge. I hope I am not too late for your needs. You could try . . . precursoversary. Precursor is something that comes before, or in some definitions an advanced message of something to come. So a percursoversary would be the turning back to something that is to come. Anniversary is composed of yearly and turning, so returning to something yearly. So a precursoversary would be turning to something that is to come or that comes before. We get the word verse from the same root, where the line turns in a poem. You could play with the spelling. I couldn't figure a way to say yearly without making the word too cumbersome to say easily. I hope that might at least give you some idea how it might be done. You project sounds fascinating! Good luck!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,974 Likes: 3 |
----please, draw me a sheep----
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 963
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 963 |
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,915
Posts230,261
Members9,208
| |
Most Online4,606
Sep 17th, 2025
|
|
|
|
|
|
