Date:  Thu, 6 Apr 1995 11:07:31 -0700

From:  David Harnick-Shapiro <david[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BUCKAROO.ICS.UCI.EDU>

Subject: Re: names to nouns



On Tue, 4 Apr 1995 13:36, Larry Horn writes:



> Wouldn't Machiavelli and Hamburg be the eponyms of 'Machiavellian' and

> 'hamburger' 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.



Taking a page - an entire article, actually - from the most recent

PADS, wouldn't the word for the namesake be "eponymee"? :-)



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