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    [–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    “Progynova”.. that’s a really great name. Naming things is hard so I always appreciate a good name when I see one

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Could you elaborate on what makes the name a good one?

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    I read it as pro-gyn-nova

    • Pro: as in professional/effective
    • Gyn: woman (from Proto-Indo-European *gwen), like in gynocology
    • Nova: new (in many romance languages)

    It rolls off the tongue and encapsulates three important aspects. I'm sure there are other readings of it too.

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

    I think it's more pro like the prefix meaning "for."

    So it would roughly mean "for new woman"

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

    Also made me think of progesterone.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    Ah, other commenters beat me to saying what I was going to say regarding the semantics.

    But also, it’s a unique artificially created word. Nobody is going to confuse it for anything else (granted, that might get murky with pharmaceuticals). It’s searchable with any piece of software that does simple string matching. Also, it isn’t itself a constituent of some other longer word, which helps with that kind of thing too.

    The spelling of the word is also phonetically logical. Being a new artificially created word, they could’ve spelled it however they wanted, but they chose the spelling that reads how it sounds. Very few people are going to hear it spoken and misspell it if they’re typing it into some device.

    Yeah.. that sums it up

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

    In my opinion, it ends in nova and the transition from prog to nova with the y is just 🤌