This is going back a few days, but Ensor uses 'he' of Orac in the eponymous episode, as does Avon in the same episode.
I suppose it could also be argued that it is a 'human tendency' to refer to 'that using a male/female' voice by the appropriate gender.
(nb. if eponym is for 'named after/derived from' a person, toponym for a place, what is the word for 'things', ideas etc: eg the word 'bolshie' derives from 'Bolshevik')
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Jacqui asked:
(nb. if eponym is for 'named after/derived from' a person, toponym for a place, what is the word for 'things', ideas etc: eg the word 'bolshie' derives from 'Bolshevik')
I'd have thought it was still eponym. The English word comes directly from the Greek eponumos [can't do the Greek characters here], for which my dictionary offers "named after some person or thing". That's derived from epi, which is a preposition meaning various things but chiefly on, at, to; and onuma, an Aeolian dialect form of onoma, meaning name. So it's not quite analogous to toponym, which derives from topos, a place, and onuma, as above, ie two nouns rather than a preposition plus noun.
If you wanted to coin a word analogous to toponym specifically relating to ideas, I suggest ideonym.
Harriet wrote:
Jacqui asked:
(nb. if eponym is for 'named after/derived from' a person, toponym for a place, what is the word for 'things', ideas etc: eg the word 'bolshie' derives from 'Bolshevik')
I'd have thought it was still eponym. The English word comes directly from the Greek eponumos [can't do the Greek characters here], for which my dictionary offers "named after some person or thing". That's derived from epi, which is a preposition meaning various things but chiefly on, at, to; and onuma, an Aeolian dialect form of onoma, meaning name. So it's not quite analogous to toponym, which derives from topos, a place, and onuma, as above, ie two nouns rather than a preposition plus noun.
If you wanted to coin a word analogous to toponym specifically relating to ideas, I suggest ideonym.
'Bolshevik' in turn derives from the Russian word for 'big', so would there be a word for 'named after some attribute', or would this come under 'named after some person or thing'?
Una
Una asked:
'Bolshevik' in turn derives from the Russian word for 'big', so would there be a wordfor 'named after some attribute', or would this come under 'named after some personor thing'?
I really think eponym is a fairly large blanket.
Iain replied to me:
I really think eponym is a fairly large blanket.
No, that's 'duvet'. Eponym is something quite different.
I'm a bit worried if you can't distinguish sheep from geese.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Harriet Monkhouse wrote:
Iain replied to me:
I really think eponym is a fairly large blanket.
No, that's 'duvet'. Eponym is something quite different.
I'm a bit worried if you can't distinguish sheep from geese.
You're worried? How do you think the geese feel?
Iain
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