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This page describes TAMNAMS-like names applied to octave-equivalent mosses with more than 10 notes, as well as non-octave mosses (fifth and tritave equivalent).

Disclaimer

The names described in this section may may have limited use. Some of these names may only find usage by a single person or a small group and thus have limited acceptance by the broader xen community. These names may also be subject to change as these names or the scales they refer to gain greater usage by the community, and it may be possible for the same scale to have more than one name.

Relating a mos and its descendants

In the absence of any names, mosses can be instead described by how it relates back to a more familiar mos. In general, all mosses with n periods relate back to a root mos of nL ns. As it pertains to TAMNAMS-named mosses, any octave-equivalent mos with more than 10 steps and no more than 5 periods is related to some TAMNAMS-named mos.

In either case, any mos can be related to its descendants by treating it as the root of its own scale tree. For a mos of the form xL ys, its descendants (children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc) contain the following pattern of step counts.

Parent		Child		Grandchild		Great-grandchild
Large steps	Small steps	Large steps	Small steps	Large steps	Small steps	Large steps	Small steps
x	y	x+y	x	x+y	2x+y	x+y	3x+2y
						3x+2y	x+y
				2x+y	x+y	3x+2y	2x+y
						2x+y	3x+2y
		x	x+y	2x+y	x	2x+y	3x+y
						3x+y	2x+y
				x	2x+y	3x+y	x
						x	3x+y

Names for mosses with more than 10 notes

Names for nL ns mosses with more than 10 notes

Pattern	Name	Prefix	Abbrev.
6L 6s	hexawood	hexwd-	hxw
7L 7s	heptawood	hepwd-	hpw
8L 8s	octawood	octwd-	ocw
9L 9s	enneawood	ennwd-	enw
10L 10s	decawood	decwd-	dkw
11L 11s	hendecawood	hedwd-	hdw
12L 12s	dodecawood	dodwd-	ddw
13L 13s	13-wood	13wd-	13w
14L 14s	14-wood	14wd-	14w
kL ks	k-wood	kwd	kw

Names for mosses with 11 or more notes

11-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 10s	tanzanite, tenorite	Ganaram inukshuk	More naming puns (tenzanite or tenorite).
4L 7s	kleistonic		Former TAMNAMS name.
7L 4s	suprasmitonic		Former TAMNAMS name.
	daemotonic	Eliora	Various reasons; see 7L 4s.
9L 2s	villatonic	Ganaram inukshuk	Indirectly references avila and casablanca temperaments.
	ultradiatonic, superarmotonic	CompactStar	In reference to diatonic and armotonic.
12-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 11s	helenite	Ganaram inukshuk	In reference to the "ele" substring found in the word "eleven".
5L 7s	p-chromatic		Former TAMNAMS name.
6L 6s	hexawood		Extension of k-wood scales; coincidentally references hexe temperament.
7L 5s	m-chromatic		Former TAMNAMS name.
13-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 12s	zircon	Ganaram inukshuk	Zircon is used as a birthstone for December.
11L 2s	hendecoid	Eliora	From Greek "eleven"; references how "its generator is so close to 11/8 as to be called nothing but that" and that it has 11 large steps.
14-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
7L 7s	heptawood		Extension of k-wood scales.
13L 1s	trollic	Godtone	The name proposed by Godtone refers to 12L 1s, but it refers to 13L 1s as a troll move.

Note count	Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
17	2L 15s	liesic	Frostburn	Frostburn's naming scheme only goes up to 3 generations, so this name is suggested.
19	3L 16s	magicaltonic	Xenllium	In reference to magic temperament.
	16L 3s	muggletonic	Xenllium	In reference to muggle temperament.
21	10L 11s	miracloid	Eliora	In reference to miracle temperament.
22	3L 19s	zheligowskic	Frostburn	In reference to Lucjan Żeligowski leading fights against the town of Giedraičiai.
	19L 3s	giedraitic	Frostburn	Named after the basic magic layout of Kite Giedraitis' guitar. Proposed prefix is "kai-".
	21L 1s	escapist	Eliora	References escapade temperament, which is supported by both 21edo and 22edo, covering the entire range.
23	22L 1s	quartismoid	Eliora	Five generators of roughly 33/32 quartertone are equal to 7/6 in the harmonic entropy minimum; also, the extreme ranges of 22edo and 23edo both support this mos.

Names for non-octave mosses

3/1-equivalent mosses

7-note mosses <3/1>
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
4L 3s	electric	CompactStar	In reference to electra temperament
9-note mosses <3/1>
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
4L 5s	lambdatonic	n/a	"Lambda" already refers to 4L 5s
11-note mosses <3/1>
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
7L 4s	superelectric	CompactStar?	Expansion of 4L 3s
9L 2s	subarcturus	?	?

3/2-equivalent mosses

4-note mosses <3/2>
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
1L 3s	neptunian	CompactStar	In reference to "uranian" for 3L 2s<3/2>
5-note mosses <3/2>
Pattern	Suggested name(s)	Proposed by	Reasoning
3L 2s	uranian	?	?

Names for equave-agnostic mosses

TAMNAMS-named mosses
Mos	Name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 1s	trivial	triv	trv	Trivial mos pattern, simplest possible mos pattern
1L 2s	antrial
2L 1s	trial
1L 3s	antetric
3L 1s	tetric
1L 4s	pedal
2L 3s	pentic
3L 2s	anpentic
4L 1s	manual
6-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 5s	anhexic	ahex-	ahx
5L 1s	hexic	hex-	hx
7-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 6s	ansaptic	ansap-	asp
2L 5s	anheptic	anhep-	ahp
3L 4s	anseptenic	ansep-	asep
4L 3s	septenic	sep-	sep
5L 2s	heptic	hep-	hp
6L 1s	saptic	sap-	sp
8-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 7s	anastaic	anast-	aast
3L 5s	anoctic	anoct-	aoct
5L 3s	octic	oct-	oct
7L 1s	astaic	ast-	ast
9-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 8s	annavic	annav-	anv
2L 7s	anennaic	anenn-	aenn
4L 5s	annovemic	annov-	anv
5L 4s	novemic	nov-	nv
7L 2s	ennaic	enn-	enn
8L 1s	navic	nav-	nv
10-note mosses
Pattern	Suggested name	Prefix	Abbrev.	Reasoning
1L 9s	andashic	andash-	adsh
3L 7s	andeckic	andeck-	adek
7L 3s	deckic	deck-	dek
9L 1s	dashic	dash-	dsh