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Each generation has twice as many mosdescendants as the last, so rather than try to name every possible descendant, mosdescendants more than 3 generations from a given parent mos may be referred to how many generations away it is. Mosschismic scales are 3rd mosdescendants, so after that are 4th-mosdescendants, 5th-mosdescendants, and so on. The algorithms below shows how to find how many generations away a mos xL ys is from another scale.

*# Let z and w be the number of large and small steps of the parent mos to be found. Assign to z and w the values x and y respectively. Let g = 0, where g is the number of generations away from zL ws.

*# Let m1 be equal to max(z, w) and m2 be equal to min(z, w).

*# Assign to z the value m2 and w the value m1-m2. Increment g by 1.

*# If the sum of z and w is less than or equal to 10, then the mos name is that assigned to the mos zL ws, which is g generations away from xL ys. If not, repeat the process starting at step 2.

*# Let z and w be assigned the values x and y respectively. Let g = 0, where g is the number of generations away from nL ns.

*# Let m1 be equal to max(z, w) and m2 be equal to min(z, w).

|seph-

|seph

|unchagned

|unchagned

|Rather than alluding to [[sephiroth]] temperament, the name should allude to Peter Kosmorsky's ''[https://ia800703.us.archive.org/12/items/TractatumDeModiSephiratorum/ModiSephiratorum.pdf Tractatum de Modi Sephiratorum]'' (A Treatise on the Modes of the Sephirates), whose name ultimately comes from the [[wikipedia:Sefirot|sefirot]]. The document describes several edos that are said to contain the "modi sephiratorum" (sephirate modes). Therefore, instead of the name "sephiroid", suggesting that the mos pattern resembles the modi sephiratorum, the mos pattern ''is'' the modi sephiratorum, hence the mosname "sephirotonic".

|May still reference sephiroth temperament. For a more indirect reference, an alternate transliteration of סְפִירוֹת (sefirot) may be used instead.

New name is longer than the old name.

|zal

|As of writing, there are two names. I would favor zaltertic over dicoid in that it removes a name that suggests a temperament.

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! colspan="9" |Changes to names that bear the anti- prefix

!Abbrev.

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|selenic

|sel-

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|alpine

|alp- or unchanged

|alp or unchanged

|Looks like "anpine" (a shortened form of "antipine", following the logic of the "an-" prefix), but accidentally corrected into "alpine". Somewhat preserves meaning of the anti-/an- prefix.

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|1L 8s

|References two different temperaments.

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|parivalic

|par-

|A portmanteau of [[Passion|'''pa'''ssion]], [[Ripple|'''ri'''pple]], and [[Valentine|'''val'''entine]]. Shorter name.

|References three different temperaments.

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! colspan="9" |Changes to names that bear other prefixes

|unchagned

|unchagned

| rowspan="2" |The connection to diatonic may be beneficial to some musicians. Additionally, the mode names commonly used for both mosses are those from diatonic (lydian, ionian, etc) with the anti- and super- prefixes added.

New names reference pelog tuning and armodue theory.

|An indirect reference to [[bleu]] temperament; azure is a specific shade of blue. Simplified name. Also, the sub- prefix may falsely suggest another scale called "(prefix)neutralic", similar to how sub'''aric''' (2L 6s) is the parent to both j'''aric''' (2L 8s) and t'''aric''' (8L 2s).

|New name is referencing a temperament, albeit indirectly. The sub- prefix reasoning may be a stretch, since subaric, jaric, and taric are the only mosses related this way.

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|All mosses of the form 1L ns mosses end with -ic, excluding those named under the previous rule.

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* antimachinoid -> selenic

* antisubneutralic -> mineric

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{| class="wikitable"

| rowspan="4" |onyx

| rowspan="3" |1L 7s

| rowspan="2" |1L 8s

| rowspan="2" |mineric

|1L 9s

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|9L 1s