Word-manufacture
The term "Word-manufacture" was first of all used by bauer .
The process known as Word-manufacture refers to the process of arbitrarily selecting any acceptale sequence of sounds and using it as the name of an object.
These word have no etymoligy. In recent years many of such words have been coined by computers. To quote Bauer, " the purest cases of Word-manufacture are when a word is created ex-nihilo, with no mophological, phonological or orthographic motivation whatever".
The trad name kodak and, similarly, the word quark used for the frist time by james joyce in his novel finnegans wake are typical examplees of this type of Word-manufacture. Trade names like amtron, dacron, krylon, orlon and teflon are computer-produced words of this type( see bauer1983:239). The"-on" at the end of these words looks like a suffix but it is not a suffix. Each of these words is an absolutely new coinage with no etymological or morphological link withany other word of english or of any other language.