Date:  Wed, 5 Apr 1995 10:40:39 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Re: names to nouns



>>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



Is there also a converse for "namesake"? I've wondered about that before.

  --Natalie (maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]ra.msstate.edu)