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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. In this case, is there a word to define what type of a name 'Wing' is (something-nym maybe)?


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well, if toponym is the word for something derived from a place, maybe a name derived from a place would be toponom?

I'm not sure about names from other things. animals=aninom?

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an eponym describes something named for a person; this would seem to be the other way 'round.


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the other way 'round.

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something named for a person

Not to naysay the tsuwm, but AHD defines it as the person for whom something is named. I seem to remember it also being the other way 'round, i.e., as tsuwm defined it, not the other other way 'round.


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Faldage, are you obfuscating? I won't even ask tsuwm.


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obfuscating?

Obfuscating? What obfuscating? You got the thing named for the person as opposed to person for whom the thing is named. Then you got the person named for the thing. That's a whole nother other way 'round. I understand me.


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tsuwm>an eponym describes something named for a person..
F>the person for whom something is named.
A person whose name is or is thought to be the source of the name of something, such as a city, country, or era. For example, Romulus is the eponym of Rome. [AHD]
ASp>obfuscating?

color me confused, but I'd say yes (even though invited to butt out)!

[the original question, as I thought I understood it, was what is the word for naming of a person after a thing; as opposed to naming a thing after a person; i.e. and e.g., the other way 'round. - ron obvious :P ]

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t> Rome, Romulus. Rome is the eponym.

F> Rome, Romulus. Romulus is the eponym.

What anchita wants to know is what would you call Romulus if he had been named after the City.


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