Made-up linguistics term: mora.
Its made-up plurals: moras or morae. (A hotly debated subject, of course - we're linguists, after all.)
The made-up adjective: moraic.
The made-up adverb: moraically.
Spellcheck has now underlined every other word in my document in red, because I am currently writing a paper fundamentally based on the idea of the mora. (I swear I'm not entirely making this up.)
This phenomenon is also related to the words: binarity, bimoraic, bimoraically, monomoraic, monomoracity.
There's a term for what has happened here but, ironically, I can't think of it.
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