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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Eponym - a word derived from the name of a person #168383 05/22/2007 9:06 AM Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 UK PeterF stranger PeterF stranger Joined: May 2007 Posts: 1 UK All dictionaries seem to define eponyms as words named after people or a person. If selenography is an eponym, are gods people? Copy Link to Clipboard Re: Eponym - a word derived from the name of a person PeterF #168385 05/22/2007 12:38 PM Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park of troy Carpal Tunnel of troy Carpal Tunnel Joined: Oct 2000 Posts: 5,400 rego park is Santa Claus (aka Kris Kringle, father chrismas,etc) a person? is a person only someone that we have proof once lived and died?(so do Adam and Eve (or other mythical/traditional 'first people") lose personhood? We might not believe in Zeus, or Jupitor, or Jove or Mars, but at one point people did. they considered their gods real. Now, if we discussed religion, we could discus did they consider their gods "people" (but we don't discuss religion, not even ancient ones) but, for the purposes of language, i think we can accept ancient gods as people! my other obsession Copy Link to Clipboard Re: Eponym - a word derived from the name of a person of troy #168394 05/23/2007 2:44 PM Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California Maven member Maven member Joined: Apr 2007 Posts: 120 California Many eponyms are based on characters of fiction. Why should characters of myth or religion be excluded from being 'people'? tempus edax rerum Copy Link to Clipboard Re: Eponym - a word derived from the name of a person PeterF #168582 06/08/2007 2:13 AM Joined: May 2007 Posts: 13 Nanu Nanu stranger Nanu Nanu stranger Joined: May 2007 Posts: 13 Perhaps the dictionary is wrong. After all, it never talks with anyone! It's just a list of words, and it doesn't know how to use them, just define them. Hence: Perhaps an eponym is a word derived from the name of a . . . Personality, rather than a person. Since there is obviously room for disagreement over what a person is (factual or fiction, veracious or mythic), then with "Personality", why that takes us a step away, and possibly "above" mere persons, to an ultimate (or more ultimate, possibly even most ultimate) Source, at which there ought be no quibbling over actuality or potentiality, just - absolute - Personality. Copy Link to Clipboard Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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