Re: OT: Teknonyms (was: OT: Re: Anthroponymics)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 19:36 |
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On 10/19/05, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
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> 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".
Or, my personal (least) favorite, "hexadecimal" - chosen over the more
linguistically consistent (albeit still demonstrably artificial)
"sexadecimal" to avoid having "sex" in the word. *sigh*
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>