Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 07:56:00 -0400

From: David Muschell dmuschel[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]MAIL.GAC.PEACHNET.EDU

Subject: Re: names to nouns



Wouldn't Machiavelli and Hamburg be the eponyms of 'Machiavellian' and 'ham-

burger' rather than the latter being eponyms? I think of 'eponym' as being kin

to 'namesake' rather than to its converse, which is what we need here. Larry



Machiavelli would by the eponym as the source for "Machiavellian," but

"hamburger" would be a toponym, derived _from_ the name of a place.



David