namesmæri
Namesmæri is a term used in linguistic anthropology and speculative world-building to describe the craft and practice of creating, transforming, and using names within a culture. It covers personal names, family names, place names, and ceremonial or symbolic names, emphasizing naming as a social act that can express lineage, identity, belief, and affiliation. The term is a coined or debated label that is not part of a standardized academic discipline, but is useful for discussions about how names function within communities.
Practices associated with namesmæri include the deliberate formation of new names according to phonological and morphological
Functions and significance attributed to namesmæri span identity construction, social cohesion, and cultural memory. Names can
See also onomastics, anthroponymy, toponymy. Note: namesmæri is primarily a descriptive or theoretical concept used in