(Yesterday, 09:49 AM)Aga Tentakulus Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.To come up with a reasonable sentence, I need to know what (xxx-pfer) is supposed to be.
You can test it to some extent using a process of elimination. But that's done with ChatGPT, Perplexiti, and Gemini, which I got to check each other. It's just not easy to get the AIs to do that. They immediately start fantasizing about such things; you have to force them very specifically. So the following is based on the premise that it is, of course, incomplete and not necessarily correct. But perhaps it's a starting point.
Starting from fer as the last word: The letter before it cannot be “s,” “t,” or “q” "p" in Latin or German.
pfer
sfer
tfer
qfer
are very unlikely endings in both languages.
So it's probably an “i.”
The letter before it looks like a j (only in German)/ z, t, or a small f.
jifer doesn't exist.
fifer doesn't exist either.
But zifer does exist – for example, in German “Luzifer” – but that's it with german. So could it mean Luzifer? Probably not, if you interpret the third and fourth letters as a very widely written z and the first as an “L”, however you interpret it, then with a lot of goodwill – but....
Well, then tifer remains as a possible option: (Many of the other word creations are very contrived, so don't take them too seriously.)
With 2 letters before “tifer”
fatifer fateful, ominous
letifer bringing death, deadly
setifer/saetifer bearing bristles, bristly
Vātifer prophetic, prophetic (not usual)
Pōtifer bringing drink/beverage (not usual)
Mītifer bearing mildness/gentleness
Aptifer suitable/fit (funny, not realistic)
Altifer the one who bears/raises the height (not realistic )
With 3 letters before “tifer” (visual)
Pectifer Carrying the breast (unusuall)
Cultifer Bringing care/processing
Cistifer Carrying a box/basket
Lactifer Carrying milk
Noctifer Bringing night
Scutifer Carrying a shield, squire
Aestifer Bringing heat
Salūtifer Bringing healing
portifer Carrier, load carrier
With 4 letters before “tifer”
Auritifer Ear bearing (very rare)
Penitifer Rod bearing (in anatomical texts)
Vertitifer Turning bearing (very rare, derived from vertito)
Pontifer Bridge bearing (extremely rare as an adjective, derived from Pontifex)
Aptitifer Bringing suitability (very rare)
and
mortifer (“bringing death”)
With 5 letters before “tifer”
sagittifer Arrow-bearing
Prōlētifer Procreating offspring
Spīritifer Spirit-bearing
To my understanding, “mortifer” is one of the most likely variants here—but also highly speculative.
Choose one
