Date:  Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:36:09 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.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