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Both.
Well, that's one way of looking at it.
Obfuscating the Obfuscation
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sort of like asking about the St Vincent part of Enda St Vincent Millay's name.
She was named Edna St. Vincent Millay because her uncle, was accidently injured, and was left unconscious in a ship's hold(he was checking goods he was having shipped, and was planning to leave on the same ship, leaving england) He was there 10 days, with no food or water, and very near death when found in NY.
he was rushed to St Vincents Hosp., and survived. His sister, close to term at the time, promised to name her child for the hospital, to thank them..
So Edna St Vincent Millay was named for a hospital.
what is the term used to descibe that?
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what is the term used to descibe that?
gratitudinym? 
formerly known as etaoin...
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retrotoponym??  (aside)This face has always seemed more confused than crazy. I think I look like this when I am confused......
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Namesake goes both ways; eponym should, too, for sources of names.
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they'd better... for NAME'S SAKE!!!
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Namesake goes both ways
Unfortunately, for eponym there's two both ways. We've already determined that eponym can refer to the person after whom something is named or the thing named after the person. What we haven't determined is if it can also refer to either in the case where the person is named after the thing. I think, for reasons of precision in language, there should be a separate word for this phenomenon.
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What is the word for a person's name when that name has been derived from the name of a place/animal/thing? For example, one of the characters in the story "Hands" (by Sherwood Anderson) is named 'Wing'; the name having been given to him after the wing of a bird.
synecdoche
syn·ec·do·che ( P ) Pronunciation Key (s-nkd-k) n.
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
Native Americans had a particular fondness for synecdoche .. an endearing characteristic which is often romanticized in story and song. Hence:
On the banks of the river
stood Runnin' Bear, young Indian brave
On the other side of the river
stood his lovely Indian maid
Little White Dove was her name,
such a lovely sight to see
But their tribes fought with each other
so their love could never be
Runnin' Bear loved Little White Dove
with a love big as the sky
Runnin' Bear loved Little White Dove
with a love that couldn't die
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http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769327.htmlThe above site won't help nail down the nym you're looking for--but there are a few nyms you might like to add to your trove of nyms.
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a few nyms you might like to add to your trove of nyms
Would that make him a nym-phophiliac?
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