prefixlukuma
Prefixlukuma is a coined term used to describe a convention in which a fixed prefix is attached to base forms to encode metadata, grammatical information, or disambiguation cues. It is discussed mainly in informal online communities and among hobbyist developers, and it does not correspond to a formal linguistic or computer-science standard. The prefix is intended to be machine-parsable while remaining recognizable to humans, helping with categorization and automated processing.
Etymology and scope: The term combines the word prefix with the nonce syllable lukuma, chosen for phonological
Applications and examples: In linguistics and corpus annotation, prefixlukuma-noun-apple could be used to mark the word
Variants and reception: Related ideas include postfixlukuma and infixlukuma, which explore alternative placement of metadata signals.
See also: semantic prefixing, morphological tagging, naming conventions. References to prefixlukuma are predominantly in informal online