I like all of them (“form” does have DOM connotations, though), the last ones 
should be in third person.

Brendan’s “protos” could work, too,  as an abbreviation for “prototypes”.

On Oct 31, 2011, at 16:23 , Allen Wirfs-Brock wrote:

> some others (probably all too long for Brendan's tastes):
> 
> "provides" (properties for)
> "provisions"
> "generalizes"
> "derives"
> "spawns"
> "engenders"
> "differentiates"
> 
> "spawn"  (bad concurrency connotations)
> "parent"  (bad DOM connotations)
> 
> Not accurately descriptive but close enough that they have some of the right 
> connotations.
> "build"
> "devise"
> "forge"
> "form"
> "invest"
> 
> Note that for many non-native English speakers probably don't have many of 
> these words (including beget) in their vocabularies. For them, a symbolic 
> token such as <| or <: is probably just as meaningful.

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