CAP Prevo - Protowatt - Name Submissions

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We're taking submissions for the name of Krilowatt's pre-evo's design! As described in this post, "Protowatt" is what it was dubbed for the purposes of voting on its design, but this name was never voted on officially, so we will hold a vote on the name of the design. "Protowatt", "Attowatt" and "Plicowatt" will automatically be slated. We will also be using Gen. IV-style rules for this Pokemon's name, so please be sure your name follows the rules!

Design:

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RULES:

Legal name submissions must meet the following standards
  • Names must start with a capital letter.
  • Names cannot be longer than 10 letters.
  • Names can only contain the following characters:
    • Letters A-Z
    • Numbers 1-9
    • Dash (-)
    • Apostrophe (')
    • Period (.)
    • Space
  • No more than two capital letters can be included in the name, and capital letters cannot be consecutive.
  • A maximum of two non-letters can be included in the name, and a maximum of one non-letter of each type can be included (ie. You can't have two numbers, or two apostrophes, but you could have one number and one apostrophe)

Names will not be slated if they are:
  • completely unrelated to the design
  • the name of an existing Pokemon
  • silly (puns are fine)
  • based primarily on memes
  • meant to inflame, intimidate, or cause controversy

WIPs
Work In Progress (WIP) Names can be posted at any time for comments from the community.

No more than three WIP Names can be posted by any individual person through the entire course of the submission thread. This limit applies to ALL posts made by a single person, even if previous posts are edited or deleted. This limit is intended to curb the tendency for some submitters to spam the thread repeatedly with lists of Names. This detracts from other submissions and makes it difficult for commenters to survey the submission thread.

Do not bump your WIP names by posting them repeatedly, or making minor spelling changes of a letter or two. Bumping will result in the disqualification of all names by the offender. Editing or deleting bump posts will not prevent disqualification.

Final Submissions
Only ONE Final Submission can be made per person. Any Final Submission that does not follow the proper format will be disqualified.

Name Final Submissions can only be posted after a CAP Moderator posts in the thread announcing that final submissions are open. Any Final Submission posted prior to the Moderator announcement post will disqualify the submitter from the poll entirely. Even if the offending post is edited later or deleted, the submitter will still be disqualified for the remainder of the thread. This ensures that there is some time for discussion and that all submitters have equal opportunity to post Final Submissions without anyone unfairly "jumping the gun".

Please make a new post after the CAP moderator announcement for Final Submissions. Do not edit a previous post prior to the announcement to make it a Final Submission. All posts prior to the announcement post will be ignored for purposes of making the Name Poll.

Final submissions must provide one sentence (25 words maximum) explaining the etymology of the name.

Final submissions must provide a common English pronunciation. The common pronunciation can be made in whatever format you feel best conveys the pronunciation to most English speakers. (You may optionally also provide an IPA pronunciation. For information about IPA and processing words into IPA read this guide: IPA For English. There are also numerous phonetic translation tools online that can help.)

Format
Name Final Submissions must be posted exactly in the following format and in the following exact order:
  • The first line of the post must have the words "Final Submission" in bold on its own line. No other text may be included before the bold heading.
  • A blank line
  • The Name submission in bold.
  • A blank line
  • A one line description of the etymology of the name or why it is appropriate for our Pokemon. (25 words maximum)
  • A blank line
  • "Pronounced: <common English pronunciation>"
  • "IPA: <IPA pronunciation>" (optional)
Below the Final Submission you can post other comments, explanations, etc.

Example final submission:
Final Submission

Syclant


A combination of "Icicle" + "Ant".

Pronounced: "SICKLE-ant"
IPA: sɪkəlænt

This name was originally submitted by Lawman on the very first CAP project. It is simple, elegant, and easy to pronounce (even if you are pronouncing it wrong), which is why it was chosen as the official name for CAP1!
 
WIP 1/3

Krilojolt

Combination of krill (animal) and jolt (small shock). Kept the o from Krilowatt so it sounds more related.

Pronounciation: Kril-oh-jolt
 
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WIP

Krilovolt


A combination of "krill" and "kilovolt", which is equal to 1000 volts. Volts are one of the variables needed to calculate wattage, along with amps.

Pronounced: kril-oh-volt
 
WIP

gigankton

A mix of gigabyte and plankton, giga being just ironic because of the small size of this mon
 
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WIP

Krilojoule


A combination of "Krilo" and "Joule". Krilo to keep that Krilowatt flavour, and Joule as in the measurement before watt (if its not, its been a bit since ive been in science.) Either way, Joule still keeps the electric vibe.


Pronounced: Kril-oh-Jew-eL
 

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WIP

Piscowatt


A combination of "Pisces" and "Picowatt"

Pronounced: PEE-sko-watt
IPA: piscoʊwɒt

Little known fact... Krill are not shrimp! They're not exactly fish either, but I think that's enough leeway to use Pisces as half the name. A picowatt is 10^15 smaller than a killowatt.
 
Final Submission

Shrwimp


Combination of shrimp and wimp. Wimp since this looks like a pretty weak mon.

Pronounced: Shr-wimp
 
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WIP

Ampuny


Combination of amp and puny. Amp because, well, electric type, and puny because it‘s very small (obviously).

Pronounced: am-PYOO-nee
 

Mowtom

I'm truly still meta, enjoy this acronym!
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WIP

Krilojoule


A combination of "Krilo" and "Joule". Krilo to keep that Krilowatt flavour, and Joule as in the measurement before watt (if its not, its been a bit since ive been in science.) Either way, Joule still keeps the electric vibe.


Pronounced: Kril-oh-Jew-eL
In case it matters - a watt is a unit of power and a joule is a unit of energy. This isn't the equivalent to one of them being named gram while the other is named ton, both units of mass/weight, but one watt is equal to one joule per second so there is still a natural progression from joule to watt.
 
WIP (1/3)

Wattson


Watt + Son = Watson

Pronounced: WAHT-suhn

I know that it can be both genders. That hasn't stopped Gothielle or Sirfetch'd. Might not final submit this either. I like Protowatt/Attowatt more. Trying to think of another name along the lines of...


WIP (2/3)

Amprawn


Ampere + Prawn

Pronounced: AM-prahn

Amperes are for current, while watts are for power. The pair do go hand in hand however, Watts divided by Amps = Volts.

Still prefer Protowatt/Attowatt. Will probably pick one of those. I think it was a bad idea to call this "Protowatt name submissions" since that just gives everyone coming in the idea that "Oh its already called Protowatt, why would I change it?"
 
Final Submission

Krilovolt


A combination of "krill" and "kilovolt". Volts are one of the variables needed to calculate wattage, along with amps (W = V x A).

Pronounced: kril-oh-volt
 

dex

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Final Submission

Piscowatt


A combination of "Pisces" and "Picowatt"

Pronounced: PEE-sko-watt
IPA: piscoʊwɒt

Little known fact... Krill are not shrimp! They're not exactly fish either, but I think that's enough leeway to use Pisces as half the name. A picowatt is 10^15 smaller than a kilowatt.
 
Final Submission

Scampere


A combination of scampi (as in shrimp scampi), scamp (someone small and mischievous), and ampere (a unit of electricity).

Pronounced: Scam-pier
 
Final Submission

Amprawn


Ampere + Prawn

Pronounced: AM-prahn

Amperes are for current, while watts are for power. The pair do go hand in hand however, Watts divided by Amps = Volts.
 
Final Submission

Krilojoule


A combination of "Krilo" and "Joule". Krilo to keep that Krilowatt flavour, and Joule as in the measurement before watt (if its not, its been a bit since ive been in science.) Either way, Joule still keeps the electric vibe.


Pronounced: Kril-oh-Jew-eL
 
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