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Re: OT: polyonomy

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Saturday, December 9, 2006, 12:36
>>caeruleancentaur wrote:
>> The featured article today on Wikipedia is about Macedonia. The >> author uses the word "polyonomy" along >> with "heteronomy." "Heteronomy" is an entry in the AHD. >> However, "polyonomy" is not. I know what the author means, but I >> should think the word would be "polynomy." The word doesn't seem >> to warrant that extra "o." Neither form is in the AHD.
>Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> wrote:
>Anyway, if the etymological meaning is "many names", I think it >should be <polyonymy>. The "extra" O is part of the Greek word for >"name", <onymos>. <Polynomy>, AFAICT, would mean "many systems of >government" or "many bodies of knowledge". <Polyonomy> seems like >a conflation of the two. (But I am not an expert.)
I see your point. The prefix can be either "hetero-" or "heter-" depending on what follows: hetero-sexual, heter-onomy. There is only one form for "poly-": poly-gon, poly-onomy. There is the noun "polynom," so the two different noun stems would have to be differentiated. "Polyonomy" just looks funny until the etymology is known. Charlie http://wiki.frath.net/senjecas

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