Re: OT: Teknonyms (was: OT: Re: Anthroponymics)
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 19:24 |
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On 10/19/05, tomhchappell <tomhchappell@...> wrote:
> --- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@M...> wrote:
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> > [snip]
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> > Actually patronymics are the rule and
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> > metronymics
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> (Matronym, not metronym, is what you meant, I'm sure.)
Metronym gets 270+ Ghits to matronym's 700+; but
since many of the former references are in reference
works they don't seem to be casual misspellings.
I suspect metronym is actually the earlier form
and matronym is more recent, since "nym"
is Greek and "metr-" rather than "matr-" is the
oblique stem for "mother" in Greek. "Matronym"
seems to be one of those Greek/Latin hybrids
like "television".
> How common cross-culturally and/or cross-linguistically are
> teknonyms, that is, naming someone after their child?
My brother and I briefly used teknonyms for
a world where people experience time in
reverse of the way we experience it. But
we didn't develop that world very thoroughly;
it was hardly more than a sketch, with no
real conlang.
--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/esp.htm
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