In spirit, this kinda reminds me of the Czech chemical nomenclature – large parts of it (including original names for many elements) were designed pretty much s

In spirit, this kinda reminds me of the Czech chemical nomenclature – large parts of it (including original names for many elements) were designed pretty much single-handledly by natural scientist Jan Svatopluk Presl. This was part of the Czech National Revival: a huge movement in the 1800s to prevent Czech language and culture to die out under the German/Austrian influence. During that time, the vocabulary saw a boom of new, original words (including ridiculous ones) to combat Germanisms at all cost. And so to this day, a portion of the Czech periodic table has unique naming of elements, completely unrelated to their Latin counterparts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_chemical_nomenclature https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_chemical_nomenclature