How Zeke Coined Words

Coronaviruses are a class of viruses that are related to each other and cause diseases in humans and animals. Every word he created had an underlying reason for being, because they were things Zeke found to be important in his research on date farming. How do these people usually coin words like this? If something is ancient and likely to be an old root, it's probably not something to worry about. Otherwise, are your con people into borrowing? Do they have extensive compounding strategies? Do they prefer derivational affixes? What kind of metaphors do they use? This has to be informed by all your other questions. It's not just about coining words in general,