The Importance of a Cultural Lens in Language Formation

When I created the word nithik, lanugo, the fine hairs that cover a newborn's body, there was not that much depth to the etymology in terms of cultural myth. For the act of catching the baby as it falls from the birth canal, and thus came the term matriarch. Sometimes you may have ideas for the world building that aren't so salient from the word or dictionary entry. In this case, it was more that thinking about these concepts while creating the language helped me to solidify what they would mean outside of the immediate word formation.