Aphelion

The problem is, Tao, that you just took nearly 200 words to explain what your neologism means. That severely limits its ability to catch on, because it's not intuitively obvious. A neologism has to be more than clever, it has to be useful, and the ones that catch on are the ones where you go "Oh, of course, I NEED that word" without having to spend a lot of time thinking about its origins.

(I like Dan's "back-splice" suggestion, because it does suggest precisely what it means, in the context it would be used).

As to Dan's comment about people putting words together to make new words....well, English is a Germanic language (if only because "mutt" isn't recognized as a linguistic category), and that's a hallmark of the German language. Makes sense that we'd do similar things with our own words.

I almost coined a new word for my poem "Cigar," but I chickened out . . . the phrase "artisan-work" almost became "artisana," and until I looked for it, I thought it was an actual word. Seems like it should be, at least. No matter, I think "artisan-work" fits better.

So, here's another new word for anyone who wants to use it.