CAP 1 Smogon's First "Create a Pokemon": Poll 9

[Sunday]

Yeah I noticed that. :S Ants are in the same family as Bees it seems.

And dam, my list is now on the last page. Does anyone mind if I repost it so we can reference it without changing pages?

 

[DiamondDust]

yes... sounds like vepiqueen... we need to figure out a way to fuse some of those words... maybe find out some foreign language way to say ant? we could combine that with some sort of ice related word...

 

[~Trogdor~]

Ameise is ant in German. Possibly this could be used in a name with ice.

 

[Sunday]

yes... sounds like vepiqueen... we need to figure out a way to fuse some of those words... maybe find out some foreign language way to say ant? we could combine that with some sort of ice related word...

I was thinking of using "Ant" in the language of the place that the ant KoA posted was from, but that would give it nothing to do with snow...


Some interesting words relating to the word "Ant"
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Vespoidea Taken XD
Family: Formicidae

Related to "Ice" (Thanks, wikipedia.)

Aufeis - is layered ice that forms in arctic and subarctic stream valleys
Now here's a good one! We could say it was discovered to be the only species of ant adapted to live in Antartica :)
Clathrate hydrates - are forms of ice that contain gas molecules trapped within its crystal lattice
This could explain why it seems to be floating. It has gas trapped inside of it!

Now, I would like to draw your attention to the Family, Formicidae. That word seems very easy to manipulate to include "Ice" In it don't you think? Formicedae anyone?(Form-ice-e-day)

Aufeis seems hard to work with. I haven't even worked out how to pronounce it! EDIT: (arf-e-us)
Formaufeis anyone? Or too hard on the tongue XD
Calthrate seems workable, but Hydrates isn't really XD

 

[KoA]

If this were Final Fantasy or some other generic RPG series, we could just call it Ice Ant and be done with it.

XD

 

[~Trogdor~]

Wait is this good?

Schnee+Ameise=Schneemeise
(Snow+Ant) (German)

 

[Sunday]

Maybe we can be a generic German RPG series and call it Schneemeise XD

 

[KoA]

What's the russian words for Ant and/or Ice, by chance?

I have absolutely no idea why, but I'm picturing some sort of Russian feel to it now. (Maybe from Siberia? I'm not sure.)

 

[~Trogdor~]

Well I thought it'd be good because it has that kinda pronunciation as Vespiquen.

 

[futuresuperstar]

Schneemeise sounds like a language used by old-age pirates during the middle ages, or a race of Victorian midgets.

 

[Sunday]

How about combining Formicidae (ant family), Aufeis (layered Artic ice) and Ice into:

Formicefeis (Form-ice-e-es/us)

EDIT: But change the spelling a bit...

 

[~Trogdor~]

What's the russian words for Ant and/or Ice, by chance?

I have absolutely no idea why, but I'm picturing some sort of Russian feel to it now. (Maybe from Siberia? I'm not sure.)

lol

this is ice ant

Лед Муравей

 

[Sunday]

What's the russian words for Ant and/or Ice, by chance?

I have absolutely no idea why, but I'm picturing some sort of Russian feel to it now. (Maybe from Siberia? I'm not sure.)

муравей

:S

EDIT: Beaten!!!

 

[Hyra]

Then that is proof that I've officially lost my mind. :P
Joking aside, I do have a few ideas, but I'm still hammering them out. Don't worry, "Frillypuff" isn't exactly in the cards right now...

I was thinking of something ridiculous, don't worry.

Anyways, a mix of Dorylus and Aufeis appeals to me. Not sure how to do it though. We could pull a DJ Jesus and make a himillountain out of it though.

 

[Sunday]

@ Hyra - Doryfeis? Auflus (Arf-lus)

Actually I quite like Auflus...

 

[Gothic Togekiss]

Dorylufeis? Antice? Fuglice? BuckTeeth Mr. Icy?

 

[futuresuperstar]

Auflus sounds pretty cool, though everyone and their mother will mispronounce it, =p.

 

[Sunday]

Auflus sounds pretty cool, though everyone and their mother will mispronounce it, =p.

Perhaps just spell it Arflus then? Though that name suits a ice-dog more XD

 

[Hyra]

Aufylus. and Auflus for a pre-evo. Sounds about right.

 

[~Trogdor~]

Antice seems perfect because he can slice and dice and he is an ant and it has the word ice in it.

 

[Hyra]

Antice seems perfect because he can slice and dice and he is an ant and it has the word ice in it.

It's too simplistic for this beast. And it makes me think of FF and Antlions and Mantis and stuff.

 

[DiamondDust]

hormiga - spanish
mier - dutch
fourmi - french
ameise - german
formica - italian

there is the word ant translated to those languages... ameice, fourmice, hormigice/hormigant, formicant/formice, etc.. are all possibilities.

 

[KoA]

I thought formica was a metal? :(

 

[DiamondDust]

in italian it means ant apparently.

 

[futuresuperstar]

Aufylus. and Auflus for a pre-evo. Sounds about right.

This. Aufylus all the way. Hell, I'm still going to pronounce it "Ow-Fye-Luhs."