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anthroponym en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From anthrop- + -onym or anthropo- + -nym. First attested in 1955.

Meanings

1. The name of a person, especially a surname.
   • If an anthroponym associated with a denotatum contains all the information about it, the goal of the author of a street name who uses this anthroponym to create an urbanonym consists in foregrounding a certain layer of information about the primary denotatum, from which this name was taken for secondary use. […] Therefore, concepts in commemorative urbanonymy form a ‘bundle’ of associations, ideas, and memories (comp. Stepanov, 2004), that appear in speakers as a reaction to these names, but at the same time speakers react primarily to the anthroponyms that form the basis of urbanonym units, and the street names themselves act only as ‘carriers’ of specific meaning, […] (Can we date this quote?), Oksana Neher, Liudmyla Yursa, “THE CONCEPT OF MEMORY IN THE URBANONYMY OF UZHHOROD”, in ORBIS LINGUARUM, volume 20, number 2, →DOI, page 192:

Forms

Relateds

anthropotoponym · anthroponymy · anthroponymous

Translations (20)

cs antroponymum (name of a person) · sv personnamn (name of a person) · pt antropónimo (name of a person) · el ανθρωπωνύμιο (name of a person) · udm адяминим (name of a person) · sv antroponym (name of a person) · fr anthroponyme (name of a person) · pt antropônimo (name of a person) · ca antropònim (name of a person) · it antroponimo (name of a person) · mk антропоним (name of a person) · ru антропо́ним (name of a person) · de Anthroponym (name of a person) · fi henkilönnimi (name of a person) · pl antroponim (name of a person) · sq antroponim (name of a person) · ka ანთროპონიმი (name of a person) · uk антропо́нім (name of a person) · es antropónimo (name of a person) · de Personenname (name of a person)