ChatGPT came up with:

1.	Sapienize - From Latin “sapiens” (as in “Homo sapiens”), meaning “wise” or “knowing.”
	2.	Mensify - From Latin “mens,” meaning “mind.” This would suggest giving something a mind-like quality.
	3.	Espritize - From the French “esprit,” meaning “spirit” or “mind.”
	4.	Dianoize - From Greek “διάνοια” (dianoia), meaning “thought” or “reason.”
	5.	Nousize - From Ancient Greek “νοῦς” (nous), often translated as “mind” or “intellect.”
	6.	Ruhize - From Arabic “روح” (ruh), meaning “spirit.”
	7.	Chetanize - From Sanskrit “चेतन” (chetana), meaning “conscious.”

> On Oct 5, 2023, at 4:36 PM, Thomas Jones-Low - tjoneslow at gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sophont
>
> You could use the root of Sophont, the greek Sophos (wise) as the root for that: sophomorphize (to change into a sophont).
>
> The other option might be to use the root of Sentient, if you don't mind merging latin with greek roots. so sentienmorphize. (to change into a feeling creature).
>
>> On 10/5/2023 7:15 PM, Jeff Zeitlin - editor at freelancetraveller.com (via tml list) wrote:
>> I have an article for a future issue of Freelance Traveller that uses the
>> word "anthropomorphize". It's perfectly correct, but in context it is used
>> not meaning "attributing human characteristics to an animal or object", but
>> meaning "attributing the characteristics of a sophont to an animal or
>> object". I'm willing to leave the word as-is, but if someone can come up
>> with a different word, even a neologism, that better captures the
>> generalized meaning, without relying on the Greek root _anthropos_, which
>> technically means "man" (and excludes "woman"), I'd be appreciative.
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