anthroponymous
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Etymology edit
anthroponym + -ous. By surface analysis, anthrop- + -onym + -ous = anthropo- + -nym + -ous.
Adjective edit
anthroponymous (not comparable)
- Of or relating to an anthroponym.
- 2013, Joshua Nash, Insular Toponymies, page 72:
- Anthroponymous fishing grounds were named by Norfolk Islanders after Norfolk Islanders.
- 2016, Order and Chivalry, page 53:
- Theses spaces happened to be anthroponymous, given that the military groups and their families adopted as surnames the space that they occupied within the interior of the village.
- 2013, Feuding, Conflict and Banditry in Nineteenth-Century Corsica, page 396:
- It is not clear on what basis the names were chosen, but a systematic anthroponymous linkage across generations and between affines seemed likely.
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