Mammotine?

Shiroku

Chakara or Chaokra or Chaqura

These are all plays on the word Chakra, which is (in Indian thought) each of the centers of spiritual power in the human body, usually considered to be seven in number. The idea of this pet put me in mind of India and the spiritual aspects of its culture.

Someone already suggested this on the front page but I wanted to explain why it seems like a good solid choice to me and probably the one I'd vote for if it ended up on the poll:

Phantasma

• The etymology and wordplay here is actually honestly my favourite of any other suggestions. It's even it's own existing word and I'm a sucker for that kind of naming theme.
• On its own phantasma is from phantasm, and literally is related to dreams. Its ety comes from old French and Greek, in meaning "a dream, an illusion, a fantasy" or "an apparition, a spectre" or even "unreality."
• phant- can refer to phantom et al and of course -phant from elephant!
• While -asma is the kind of suffixed ending from words like miasma and plasma. (One is "to pollute" or "noxious vapours," etc., and the other is lit. "form" or "shape" from Greek for "something molded or created.") Then there's stuff like -plasm ("ectoplasm"), which also is a word element meaning "growth," or "something molded."

Other ideas in order of personal preference:

1. Ypnagog 2. Somnoliphant 3. Hyphasma 4. Somnir 5. Oliphir 6. Bakir 7. Qir/Qipir 8. Ylephan/Ylefan 9. Ylefant 10. Ylefir/Ylephir/Ylepir

1. Ypnagog: from hypno-/hypnogogic

• hypnos- and agogos being Greek for "sleep" and "leading," respectively (lit. meaning "inducing sleep" but taken semantically as "pertaining to the state of consciousness when asleep")/
• dropped the "h" to be in line with the "y" as one of the naming conventions still being searched for, but could either be pronounced as "ip" or "yip" if wanting to strictly stick to this rather than remain with the missing "h" defining pronunciation from hypno-

2. Somnoliphant: from somn- and somnolence + oliphant

• somnus/somni- is Latin for "sleep" (related to somnolence), and oliphant is an old spelling for elephant, from--I think--Middle English?
• bonus points that it also still has the -phant which reminds of phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, etc.

3. Hyphasma: basically similar to all the above (hypno- + phasma-) and just another mashup thrown out bc it looked nice to me

• my only concern is it's a little too much like hipottu to me so that's why it's lower on my favourites

4-10. Though some are likely already repeated in the first 16+ pages of posts, these are my other contributions. They're all mashups of various words relating to the theme that I'm making big assumptions about, this time with a heavy use of bits from "tapir" because the baku are rather shaped like one and tapir are even known as/referred to as baku.

• somnir = somni/somnus (sleep/dream) + -ir (from tapir)
• oliphir = oli- (oliphant) + ""
• bakir = baku (the titular dream-eater spirit) + ""
• qir/qipir = quiet (w/o the "u" included) + -ir/-pir (from tapir); this could also have several different ways to pronounce "qir": such as keer, kweer, kwyr (rhymes with choir), etc.; same w/ "qipir" though I'm most fond of the idea of it sounding like "keeper" (as in keeper of dreams).
• ylephan/ylefan et all (8-10) = the "ele" in "elephant" turned into "yle" and then elephant as a whole fiddled with either to drop letters, change "ph" to "f," and-or include the "-ir" ending

Quai'usa (kw'eye oosa)
A playful twist on the tea Ilex Guayusa (native to the rainforest), believed by the Quechua people to induce dreams.

Qitaperh (key-ta-pair)
Qi + taper + erh
Qi - "Ki" energy, life force;
taper - Tapir an herbivorous animal with a small, prehensile snout; named after the dream-eating Baku.
erh - a variant ending for pu'er or pu-erh tea.

Quigan (key-gahn)
Qui + gan.
Qui - "Ki" energy, life force;
Gan - from Ganesha, the hindu lord.

Ulang (oo-long)
Based on the Bulang or Blang people, worshippers of the Spirit of Tea and birthplace of Pu'er tea (and, apparently, tea in general).
Also a play on words on the traditional chinese oolang tea.

Yuhu (yoo-hoo)
Yu + hu
Yù - chinese word for jade. Jade itself has many connotations. I noticed a slight jade/mint green in the concept colours.
Cháhú - Chinese word for teapot

Excited to see the new pet when it comes out!

P.S. No offense intended toward anyone for misspelled/mispronounced/misrepresented words! :o

Q: Quet - "quiet" with the I missing. dreams are generally silent things. U: Uunrae <OON-ray> seems like a sound this animal would make. also, I looked at "unreal" for inspiration. Uliim <OO-li-em> partial scramble of "subliminal". Y: Yeil <YEE-ill>

Binet - looking up the definition of "dream", I came across bobbinet. I didn't really like that one, but binet is nice.

Yantor:

A twist on the original "Tantor" (from the Edgar Rice Burroughs novels) which referred to the great elephant in Tarzan mythology.

Bakuphant

Oolophent (Oolong elephant)

Oolephas (same concept, but mixed with latin characterization of asian elephants)

Came here to suggest Quigan but someone else was faster lol

Kukurai (Baku, kurai)

No idea if that has been suggested yet because I have to go to work in like a minute and don't have time to look through 16 pages ;)

I'm excited for this, this sounds like fun. Can't wait to see what it actually looks like 😊

Bakuma!

Yukuba Yumeba

so im going off the basis that this pet is a mix of a baku and a foo/fu dog and maybe indian elephants/elephant imagery so if im wrong on either of those parts then my names wont make sense but oh well :P :)

sleepir (a pun of the word sleeper, made by using sleep and tapir [the animal bakus are based on] if the new pet had more than 4 legs it'd be a pun on sleipnir but i dont see any extras. oh well :P) -slepir is an alternative to make the vowel short like in tapir

ukonba (the word "baku" mixed with a few other letters to play on the word "ukoncha" which means "tumeric tea". looking into it, tumeric actually ties in well because its native to india and is considered holy/spiritual there OvO)

bakfu (a simple mix of baku and fu dog)

matcapir (mix of tapir and "matcha" which is a group up green tea which is specially grown for this purpose. it's traditionally used in chinese and japanese tea ceremonies OvO)

i dont want to take up anyone else's chances though and i feel a couple of my names are strong enough contenders, so i'll stop here, hehe. good luck everyone!! i cant wait to see what this new pet looks like! OvO

I suggest: Chaxiang (ch-ah-shee-ahng) Mandarin words 'Cha' (tea) and 'Xiang' (elephant) Chameng (ch-ah-mung) Mandarin 'Cha' (tea) and 'Meng' (dream) Chaye (ch-ah-yeh) Mandarin 'Cha' (tea) and 'Ye' (leaf)

MIGHT I ADD I LOVE THEM ALREADY ❤️ so excited for these

yatembo ( = the elephant )

" tembo" is elephant in swahili

"ya" = the

ya-tembo or yatembo

- we do indeed have no pets with those 3 letters , so here you go at least for the Y :):)

Sielu (suomi for "Ghost" or "soul")

^^

Darje from Darjeeling. Andarje from Ande (Spirit) & Darjeeling. Sondarje from Sonder (the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as ones own) & Darjeeling. ...I really like Darjeeling tea, okay? Toska (the russian word for the "sensation of great spiritual anguish" with no apparent cause). Tuska (A play on the above word and the fact that it has tusks... um, yeah).

It's late and my words are lost. This is the best I can do. Fantastic entries so far from everyone :3

Svadilfari, Svadilfaria, Svadilfarios just sounds nice

Assamicore based on the tea Assam - and a manticore, since that was my first impression of the shadow

Quingmao is actually a red tea bush, but sounds like an animal, too

Teacarcha tea is obivous - carcha - one of the bigger wolfes in ancient literature

Leafour leafes (which are floating around) and four legs - on which it is standing

Huan PU-Erh Huan again is a big wolflike animal standing on four legs - PU-Erh after the tea

Zoulong Zou is actually the japanese word for elephant - and oolong

Brewooi from brew (ing) - and the ooi from Rooisbos

Matora Matcha (after the tea) and tora which is tiger in japanese

and last but not least (for now)

Yumekocha Yume - dream in japanese, kocha - tea in japanese

I suggest supirittotii as it is a combination of spirit and tea in Romanji