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=== Table and scale tree of mos pattern names ===
=== Table and scale tree of mos pattern names ===
{| class="wikitable"
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="7" |2-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
! colspan="6" |2-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|trivial
|trivial
|triv-
|triv-
|Trivial mos, and hence named trivial.
|Latin
|Latin
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |3-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
! colspan="6" |3-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|antrial and trial
|antrial and trial
|(a)tri-
|(a)tri-
|Three-note mosses that descend from the trivial mos.
|Greek/Latin
|Greek/Latin
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |4-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
! colspan="6" |4-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|antetric and tetric
|antetric and tetric
|(a)tet-
|(a)tet-
|Four-note mosses that descend from antrial.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
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|2-trivial
|2-trivial
|
|
|Two copies of the trivial mos pattern.
|
|
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |5-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
! colspan="6" |5-note mosses (from TAMNAMS)
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|pedal and manual
|pedal and manual
|ped- and manu-
|ped- and manu-
|In reference to feet (one big toe and four smaller toes) and hands (four long fingers and one shorter thumb).
|Latin
|Latin
|-
|-
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|antipentic and pentic
|antipentic and pentic
|(a)pent-
|(a)pent-
|In reference to the pentatonic scale. Note that 2L 3s is pentic, and 3L 2s is anpentic; this is because the pentatonic scale, a subset of the familiar diatonic scale, is of the form 2L 3s.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |6-note mosses
! colspan="6" |6-note mosses
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|anhexic and hexic
|anhexic and hexic
|(an)hexa-
|(an)hexa-
|From hex-, meaning six; there is only one pair of single-period hexatonic mosses.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
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|2-antrial and 2-trial
|2-antrial and 2-trial
|
|
|2 copies of the (an)trial mos patterns.
|
|
|-
|-
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|3-trivial
|3-trivial
|
|
|3 copies of the trivial mos pattern.
|
|
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |7-note mosses
! colspan="6" |7-note mosses
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|ansaptic and saptic
|ansaptic and saptic
|(an)sap-
|(an)sap-
|These mosses appear further down the mos family tree. Sanskrit is used to differentiate them from the other four mosses.
|Sanskrit
|Sanskrit
|-
|-
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|anheptic and heptic
|anheptic and heptic
|(an)hept-
|(an)hept-
|In reference to diatonic being a heptatonic scale, perhaps the most well-known heptatonic mos.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
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|anseptenic and septenic
|anseptenic and septenic
|(an)sept-
|(an)sept-
|Latin prefix is used to differentiate these mosses from heptic and anheptic. Septenic has a similar stress pattern as smitonic, coincidentally.
|Latin
|Latin
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |8-note mosses
! colspan="6" |8-note mosses
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|anastaic and astaic
|anastaic and astaic
|(an)asta-
|(an)asta-
|Follows same pattern with heptatonic mosses where 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Sanskrit.
|Sanskrit
|Sanskrit
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|-
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|2-antetric and 2-tetric
|2-antetric and 2-tetric
|
|
|2 copies of the (an)tetric mos patterns.
|
|
|-
|-
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|anoctic and octic
|anoctic and octic
|(an)oct-
|(an)oct-
|If going by generational depth from 1L 1s, 3L 5s and 5L 3s are the first octatonic scales encountered. (Greek and Latin prefixes for eight are too similar.)
|Greek/Latin
|Greek/Latin
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|-
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|
|
|
|4 copies of the trivial mos pattern.
|
|
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |9-note mosses
! colspan="6" |9-note mosses
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|annavic and navic
|annavic and navic
|(an)nav-
|(an)nav-
|Follows pattern with heptatonic mosses where 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Sanskrit.
|Sanskrit
|Sanskrit
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|-
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|anennaic and ennaic
|anennaic and ennaic
|(an)enna-
|(an)enna-
|Follows pattern with heptatonic mosses where the next mos pair after 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Greek.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
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|3-antrial and 3-trial
|3-antrial and 3-trial
|
|
|3 copies of the (an)trial mos patterns.
|
|
|-
|-
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|annovemic and novemic
|annovemic and novemic
|(an)nov-
|(an)nov-
|Follows pattern with heptatonic where the 2nd next mos pair after 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Latin.
|Latin
|Latin
|-
|-
! colspan="7" |10-note mosses
! colspan="6" |10-note mosses
|-
|-
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
! colspan="2" |Mos pair
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!Names
!Names
!Prefix
!Prefix
!Etymology
!Language
!Language
|-
|-
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|andashic and dashic
|andashic and dashic
|(an)dash-
|(an)dash-
|Follows pattern with heptatonic mosses where 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Sanskrit.
|Sanskrit
|Sanskrit
|-
|-
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|2-manual and 2-pedal
|2-manual and 2-pedal
|
|
|2 copies of the pedal or manual mos patterns.
|
|
|-
|-
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|andekic and dekic
|andekic and dekic
|(an)dek-
|(an)dek-
|Follows pattern with heptatonic mosses where the next mos pair after 1L ns and nL 1s are named using Greek.
|Greek
|Greek
|-
|-
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|2-pentic and 2-anpentic
|2-pentic and 2-anpentic
|
|
|2 copies of the (an)pentic mos patterns.
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|
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|5-trivial
|5-trivial
|
|
|5 copies of the trivial mos pattern.
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=== Reasoning for names ===
=== Reasoning for names ===
Names for these mosses are meant to be as general as possible, following in the spirit of TAMNAMS names for mosses up to 5 notes. In fact, those names are borrowed from TAMNAMS as they already may be used for non-octave periods, and as such, equave-agnostic names are given starting at 6-note mosses, using numerical prefixes that suggest how many steps (or notes) each mos has. Mosses are named in pairs of xL ys and yL xs, where the mos with more small steps than large steps is given the an- prefix, short for anti-.
Names for these mosses are meant to be as general as possible, starting with established names that are already equave-agnostic: trivial, (an)trial, (an)tetric, (an)pentic, and pedal/manual. Mosses are named in pairs of xL ys and yL xs, where the mos with more small steps than large steps is given the an- prefix, short for anti-; this rule doesn't apply to pentic (2L 3s) and anpentic (3L 2s), where the former is the familiar pentatonic scale.


As there is only one pair of 6-note single-period mosses, 5L 1s and 1L 5s, the pair is named '''hexic'''.
As there is only one pair of 6-note single-period mosses, 5L 1s and 1L 5s, the pair is named '''hexic'''.


With 7-note mosses, there are three pairs of mosses. The problem is to name mosses with a unique name, which is solved by using numeric prefixes based on different languages, not only Greek or Latin. The pair for 5L 2s and 2L 5s is named '''heptic''', in reference to how 5L 2s (TAMNAMS name of diatonic) is the most well-known heptatonic mos, where hepta- is Greek for seven. Similarly, the pair 4L 3s and 3L 4s is the same number of generations away from the root (1L 1s) as 5L 2s and 2L 5s, and is named '''septenic''', where sept- is Latin for seven. The third pair, 6L 1s and 1L 6s, is farther from the root than the other two mosses, and is named '''saptic''', based off of Sanskrit ṣaṭ-, which also means seven.
With 7-note mosses, there are three pairs of mosses, whose names are based on three languages: Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit. The pair 5L 2s and 2L 5s are given the Greek-based name of '''heptic''', as 5L 2s is the familiar diatonic scale. The next pair, 3L 4s and 4L 3s, are given the Latin-based name of '''septenic'''. The last pair, 1L 6s and 6L 1s, are given the Sanskrit-based name of '''saptic''.'''''


From here, mosses of n+1 notes follow this pattern: 1L ns and nL 1s are named after Sanskrit, then the following pair is named after Greek, and then Latin. Multi-period mosses are skipped in this process. With 8-note mosses, there are only two pairs, and are named '''astaic''' (7L 1s and 1L 7s) and '''octic''' (5L 3s and 3L 5s) respectively. As with saptic and heptic, astaic is further from the root than octic. With 9-note mosses, there are three pairs again: '''navic''' (8L 1s and 1L 8s), '''ennaic''' (7L 2s and 2L 7s), and '''novemic''' (4L 5s and 5L 4s). Finally, with 10-note mosses, there are two more pairs: '''dashic''' (9L 1s and 1L 9s) and '''dekic''' (7L 3s and 3L 7s).
This pattern is continued for all successive sequences of mosses for each successive note count: 1L ns and nL 1s are given a Sanskrit-based name, the next single-period pair after that are given a Greek-based name, and the next single-period pair after that are given a Latin-based name. The two 8-note pairs are named '''astaic''' (7L 1s and 1L 7s) and '''octic''' (5L 3s and 3L 5s) respectively. The three 9-note pairs are named '''navic''' (8L 1s and 1L 8s), '''ennaic''' (7L 2s and 2L 7s), and '''novemic''' (4L 5s and 5L 4s). Finally the two 10-note pairs are named '''dashic''' (9L 1s and 1L 9s) and '''dekic''' (7L 3s and 3L 7s).
 
As with TAMNAMS, only mosses with no more than 10 notes are named.
 
Multi-period mosses are not given their own, unique names. Rather, for a mos xL ys where x and y share a greatest common factor of k, the name reflects some smaller base mos xL ys duplicated k times; for example, 5L 5s is named 5-trivial, and 2L 6s is named 2-antetric.


Only mosses with no more than 10 notes are named this way. Not only does this mirror the current convention of naming mosses up to 10 notes, but because starting at 11 notes, three languages are no longer enough to name these mosses. Multi-period mosses are not given their own, unique names. Rather, for a mos xL ys where x and y share a greatest common factor of k, the name reflects some smaller base mos xL ys duplicated k times; for example, 5L 5s is named 5-trivial, and 2L 6s is named 2-antetric.
=== Proposal for naming equave-agnostic mosdescendants ===
=== Proposal for naming equave-agnostic mosdescendants ===
Mosdescendants are named by adding prefixes to the base names described above, but only to those whose child mosses exceed 10 notes. The proposed prefixes are listed below.
Mosdescendants are named by adding prefixes to the base names described above, but only to those whose child mosses exceed 10 notes. The proposed prefixes are listed below.
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