Perhaps, I should have started with this simple
example:
TRI + ANTON = TRIANON + T = TRITON + ANTON -
TON = RITA + NON + T = ARTIST + NON -
S
tri = 3; cf. Chekhov's "Tri
sestry" (The Three Sisters, known on Antiterra as The Four
Sisters)
Anton - male given name; cf. Anton Chekhov
(1860-1904)
Trianon - the group of buildings in Versailles; cf.
Pushkin: "Do you remember Trianon and gay pastimes?" (from "To
a Grandee", 1830)
Triton - son of Poseidon and
Amphitrite; marine gastropod of the family Cymatiidae; in The Bronze
Horseman (known on Antiterra as The Headless Horseman: 1.28),
Pushkin famously compares the flooded St. Petersburg to a triton: i vsplyl
Petropol' kak triton
ton - French for "your" and
"manner"
Rita - female given name; a Karaite girl,
Van's partner in his Mascodagama dance; a character in Chekhov's story
Volodya bol'shoi i Volodya malen'kiy ("The Two Volodyas,"
1893), a spinster who knows a lot of obscene stories and tells them
tastelessly
non - French for "no"
Alexey Sklyarenko