Som'lorea

It may be of interest to some for me to explain the origin of the name “Som’Lorea.” In short, I had searched for various words of other languages that possessed pleasing phonetic and semantic quality, but failed to find any which were adequate. So, as one would do, I took elements of my own language–which I have somewhat lazily been creating for a few years now–and gave them a job they might enjoy. As with any language, its words function with various affixes–those of english including: pre-, post-, anti-, -logy, -able, -ous–and roots, likewise: arbor, script, auto, hetero, morph etc.

In the English language, our words often consists of some combination of a root, prefix, and/or suffix. For example, the word autodidactic is a combination of the prefix autos-, meaning “self”, and the root didaktos, meaning “taught”. Another being disproportionate, being a combination of the prefix dis-, meaning “not”, the prefix -pro-, meaning “for”, the root -partio-, meaning “division”, and the suffix -ate, being an adjectivizing part of the word; if the suffix -ly was added, it would change the form of the word from an adjective to an adverb. A final, simpler example would be the word cow, which only possesses a root word, lacking any corresponding affixes, deriving from the Proto-Germanic kwon.

So, with the language that I have begun to write, and hopefully will eventually “finish”, the same approach to the English language–in this sense–has been adopted, integrating various combinations of affixes and roots, giving the words a richer phonetic, semantic, and historical feeling–though the language is only a few years old. Getting on with it, Som simply means “a deep/hidden thing or a mystery”, and Lorea means “to search”; ergo, “the search for something hidden”.

This word, more or less, embodies much of the impetus behind the writings of this forum, being driven on by a curiosity for the deeper things of life, being distinct from that which is dark. There are many things that dwell hidden in places where light does not penetrate, yet not all belong to the darkness.