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