What name is given to words named after people e.g. Boycott
"his eponymous Knut Hamsun biography (1984) and according to ""A Handbook of Scandinavian Names"" (2010), a probable influence for the later name Iselin known since the mid 18th century. Iselilja (given name) Iselilja is a Norwegian feminine given name. In 2015, in Norway 17 people had the name as a first name and 15 people had it as a middle name, according to SSB's name statistics. ""Iselilja"" is mentioned in the medieval Norwegian ballad , a song that has been recorded and released by Alf Cranner on the album ""Rosemalt Sound"" (1967), by the folk-rock band on """" (1978), and"
"category Eponym An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named. The adjectives derived from eponym include ""eponymous"" and ""eponymic"". For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era, and ""the ""eponymous"" founder of the Ford Motor Company"" refers to Henry Ford. Recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows ""eponymous"" to mean ""named after its central character or creator"". Periods have often been named after a ruler or other influential figure: Trends For examples, see the comparison table below. By person's name"
"Eponym An eponym is a person, place, or thing after whom or after which something is named, or believed to be named. The adjectives derived from eponym include ""eponymous"" and ""eponymic"". For example, Elizabeth I of England is the eponym of the Elizabethan era, and ""the ""eponymous"" founder of the Ford Motor Company"" refers to Henry Ford. Recent usage, especially in the recorded-music industry, also allows ""eponymous"" to mean ""named after its central character or creator"". Periods have often been named after a ruler or other influential figure: Trends For examples, see the comparison table below. By person's name By"
"put after the name of a leader or chieftain as a term of endearment. Surnames such as Wilcox, Willcocks and Willcox are examples of this practice: all are composed of the name ""William"" and the archaic word ""cocc"", coming together to mean ""little William"". The suggestion is that only the element -""cox"" may have endured as a surname for some families. Another opinion is that the name is derived from the Old English ""cock"", which means a ""heap"" or ""mound"", and was a topographic name for a man living near any heap, hill or other bundle. Names like Haycock or"
"Namesake A namesake is a person named after another, or more broadly, a thing (such as a company, place, ship, building, or concept) named after a person. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a ""namesake"" is also defined as ""a person or thing having the same name as another"". The word is first recorded in the mid-17th century, and probably comes from the phrase ""for [the, my, his, her] name's sake"". In general, the second recipient of a name, named for the first, is said to be the ""namesake"" of the first. The attribution can, however, go in the opposite"
"often named after philosophies, a capital letter is used to differentiate between a supporter of the philosophy, and a supporter of the party, for instance ""Liberal"", a supporter of any Liberal Party, and ""liberal"", a supporter of the philosophy of liberalism. Terms such as ""small-l liberal"" may be used to indicate the concept that an individual supports. Similar examples are conservative/Conservative, democrat/Democrat, libertarian/Libertarian, republican/Republican, socialist/Socialist, and a supporter of labour/Labour. The following list includes only ""dictionary words"". Personal names (""Mark""/""mark""), place-names (""China""/""china""), company names (""Fiat""/""fiat""), names of publications (""Time""/""time"") etc. are all excluded as too numerous to list. Adjectives distinct"
"the discoverers or developers; in many cases, the name is merely a mnemonic. Some cases of reactions that were not really discovered by their namesakes are known. Examples include the Pummerer rearrangement, the Pinnick oxidation and the Birch reduction. Although systematic approaches for naming reactions based on the reaction mechanism or the overall transformation exist (such as the IUPAC Nomenclature for Transformations), the more descriptive names are often unwieldy or not specific enough, so people names are often more practical for efficient communication. Name reaction A name reaction is a chemical reaction named after its discoverers or developers. Among the"
"person's nickname without actually calling them by their nickname, English nicknames are generally represented in quotes between the bearer's first and last names (e.g., ""Dwight David ""Ike"" Eisenhower"", ""Daniel Lamont ""Bubba"" Franks"", etc.). However, it is also common for the nickname to be identified after a comma following the full real name or later in the body of the text, such as in an obituary. The middle name is generally eliminated (if there is one), especially in speech. Like English, German uses (German-style) quotation marks between the first and last names (e.g., ""Andreas Nikolaus „Niki“ Lauda""). Other languages may use"
"Epithet An epithet (from ""epitheton"", neuter of ""epithetos"", ""attributed, added"") is a byname, or a descriptive term (word or phrase), accompanying or occurring in place of a name and having entered common usage. It has various shades of meaning when applied to seemingly real or fictitious people, divinities, objects, and binomial nomenclature. It can also be a descriptive title: for example, Pallas Athena, Alfred the Great, Suleiman the Magnificent or Władysław I the Elbow-high. In contemporary use, ""epithet"" often refers to an abusive, defamatory, or derogatory phrase, such as a racial or animal epithet. This use as a euphemism is"
"Théo in the English Wikipedia.<br> Among better known people with this name are: Theo Theo is a given name and a hypocorism. Many names beginning with the root ""Theo-"" derive from the Ancient Greek word ""Theos"" (""Θεός""), which means God, for example: Many other names beginning with ""Theo-"" do not necessarily derive from Greek, but rather the old Germanic ""theud"", meaning ""people"" or ""folk"". As these names are uncommon today, and in the ancient times they were not spelled with the element ""Theo"", it is unlikely this nickname was ever applied to these individuals. These names include: See and for"
"named for a parallel/coordinate relationship between two people (for example, Bose and Einstein) and something named for a single person who had a compound surname, which may be written with a hyphen or a space but not an en dash (for example, the Lennard-Jones potential [hyphen] is named after one person (Mr. John Lennard-Jones), as are Bence Jones proteins and Hughlings Jackson syndrome [space]). Copyeditors use dictionaries (general, medical, biographical, and geographical) to confirm the eponymity (and thus the styling) for specific terms, given that no one can know them all offhand. The preference for an en dash instead of"
"Nomenclator (nomenclature) A nomenclator ( ; English plural nomenclators, Latin plural nomenclatores; derived from the Latin ""nomen""- name + ""calare"" - to call), in classical times, referred to a slave whose duty was to recall the names of persons his master met during a political campaign. Later this became names of people in any social context and included other socially important information. However, it has taken on several other meanings and also refers to a book containing collections or lists of words. It also denotes a person, generally a public official, who announces the names of guests at a party"
"were given to the winners of contests. Originally, as the verb suggests, the noun had a more general meaning of any ""circle""—including a circle of people, a circling wall around a city, and, in its earliest recorded use, the circle of a fight, which is found in the Iliad of Homer. The name, in both the forms Stephen and Steven, is commonly shortened to Steve or Stevie. In English, the female version of the name is ""Stephanie"". Many surnames are derived from the first name, including ""Stephens"", ""Stevens"", ""Stephenson"", and ""Stevenson"", all of which mean ""Stephen's (son)"". In modern times"
"""John Roe"", ""Richard Roe"", ""Jane Roe"" and ""Baby Doe"", ""Janie Doe"" or ""Johnny Doe"" (for children). In other English-speaking countries, unique placeholder names, numbers or codenames have become more often used in the context of police investigations. This has included the United Kingdom, where usage of ""John Doe"" originated during the Middle Ages. However, the legal term ""John Doe injunction"" or ""John Doe order"" has survived in English law and other legal systems influenced by it. Other names used informally such as ""Joe Bloggs"" or ""John Smith"" have sometimes been informally used as placeholders for an everyman in the UK,"
"the name that the land later comes to be known as: Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians are two examples. ""The Day the Music Died"" refers to the plane crash that took the lives of rock-and-roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. ""The Big Bopper"" Richardson in 1959, but was not used popularly until 1971 when singer-songwriter Don McLean coined it in ""American Pie"". Retroactive nomenclature Retroactive nomenclature is the telling of the earlier history of a person, place or thing while referring to said person, place or thing by a name that came into use at a later"
"Placeholder name Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which they are being discussed. These placeholders typically function grammatically as nouns and can be used for people (e.g. ""John Doe, Jane Doe""), objects (e.g. ""widget""), locations (""Main Street""), or places (e.g. ""Anytown, USA""). They share a property with pronouns, because their referents must be supplied by context; but, unlike a pronoun, they may be used with no referent—the important part of the communication is not the thing nominally referred to by the placeholder, but"
"of the Americans favored longer compound words, although the name Overlord was personally chosen by Winston Churchill himself. Many examples of both types can be cited, as can exceptions. Winston Churchill was particular about the quality of code names. He insisted that code words, especially for dangerous operations, would be not overly grand nor petty nor common. One emotional goal he mentions is to never have to report to anyone that their son ""was killed in an operation called 'Bunnyhug' or 'Ballyhoo'."" Presently, British forces tend to use one-word names, presumably in keeping with their post-World War II policy of"
"and may disappear (the same can be said for the sokuon, or small ""tsu""); Harry Potter, originally ""Harī Pottā"", is contracted to ""Haripota"", or otherwise be altered; actress Kyoko Fukada, ""Fukada Kyōko"", becomes ""Fukakyon"". These abbreviated names are so common in Japan that many companies initiate abbreviations of the names of their own products. For example, the animated series ""Pretty Cure"" marketed itself under the four-character abbreviated name ""purikyua"". Many abbreviations, especially four-character words, have been created for particular products or TV shows. Many highways and railway lines have names that are contractions of the names of their endpoints. For"
"whole compound: the three rules dealing with it are referred to as “mobility rules”. The following type of proper names are distinguished: personal names, animals’ names, geographical names, astronomical names, names of institutions, brand names, names of awards and prizes, and titles (of works). Proper names may become common names, and in this case they are written in lowercase (e.g. ""röntgen"" ‘x-ray’) and even their derived compounds may become lowercase, losing the hyphen (e.g. ""ádámcsutka"" rather than ""*Ádám-csutka"" ‘Adam’s apple’). Surnames and given names are capitalized. Surnames may have an old-fashioned spelling, which is usually retained – except if their"
"personal name Richard (like Dick) and Hob (like Bob) for Robert. Although the English word ""hick"" is of recent vintage, distinctions between urban and rural dwellers are ancient. According to a popular etymology, hick derives from the nickname ""Old Hickory"" for Andrew Jackson, one of the first Presidents of the United States to come from rural hard-scrabble roots. This nickname suggested that Jackson was tough and enduring like an old Hickory tree. Jackson was particularly admired by the residents of remote and mountainous areas of the United States, people who would come to be known as ""hicks."" Another explanation of"
"direction, with ""namesake"" referring to the original holder of the name (the eponym). Strictly speaking, a namesake is only a person ""named for"" another person—""i.e."", for the ""sake"" of the other's name, to keep it alive. Many dictionaries, however, following colloquial usage, acknowledge that things as well as persons may be or have namesakes, and (usually in a secondary definition) that the other for whom the person (or thing) is named, strictly the latter's eponym, may be called its ""namesake"". Naming a child after a relative, friend, or well-known person is a common practice in the English-speaking world. When a"
"common nicknames that begin with ""N"", where the given name does not begin with ""N"" (e.g. ""Ned"" for ""Edward"", ""Nelly"" for ""Ellen""). In Old English, the first person possessive pronoun was ""mīn"". Old English speakers commonly addressed family and close friends with ""min <Name>"", for example, ""min Ed"". Over time, the pronoun shifted from ""min"" to ""mi"" and children learning the language rebracketed the utterance /mined/ from the original ""min Ed"" (formula_3) to ""mi Ned"" (formula_4). A similar process is responsible for the word ""nickname"". Bracketing (linguistics) In linguistics, particularly linguistic morphology, bracketing is a term of art that refers"
"political risks from individuals, groups or states that disagree with them); or to make their name better suit another language. Examples of well-known writers who used a pen name include: George Eliot (1819–1880), whose real name was Mary Anne (or Marian) Evans; George Orwell (1903–1950), whose real name was Eric Blair; George Sand (1804–1876), whose real name was Lucile Aurore Dupin; Dr. Seuss (1904–1991), whose real name was Theodor Seuss Geisel; Stendhal (1783–1842), whose real name was Marie-Henri Beyle and Mark Twain (1835–1910), whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens. Apart from the large numbers of works attributable only to"
"influenced by marketing research and strategy to be appealing and marketable. The brand name is often a neologism or pseudoword, such as Kodak or Sony. The use of personal names is not unique to humans. Dolphins and green-rumped parrotlets also use symbolic names, as has been shown by recent research. Individual dolphins have distinctive whistles, to which they will respond even when there is no other information to clarify which dolphin is being referred to. Name A name is a term used for identification. Names can identify a class or category of things, or a single thing, either uniquely, or"
"include people associated with the various football codes, which include gridiron football, association football (soccer), rugby league, rugby union, Gaelic football, and Australian rules football. Bob (given name) Bob is a male given name or a hypocorism, usually of Robert. It is most common in English speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. It most likely originated from the hypocorism Rob, short for Robert. Rhyming names were popular in the Middle Ages, so ""Richard"" became ""Rick"", ""Hick"", or ""Dick"", ""William"" became ""Will"", ""Gill"", or ""Bill"", and ""Robert"" became ""Rob"", ""Hob"", ""Dob"","
"for foreign consumption. In popular journalism publications, western order is used for Japanese names. Japanese names of contemporary individuals and Hungarian names are usually ""switched"" when individuals who have such names are mentioned in media in Western countries; for example, ""Koizumi Jun'ichirō"" is known as Junichiro Koizumi in English, and Puskás Ferenc is known as Ferenc Puskás. But Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese names are usually left in East Asian order; for instance, Máo Zédōng is known as Mao Zedong in English. Names of Japanese or Chinese sportspeople generally follow the above conventions. For Japanese examples, see Ichiro Suzuki instead of"
"polluted its atmosphere. Besides or replacing the demonym, some places have collective nicknames for their inhabitants. Many examples of this practice are found in Wallonia and in Belgium in general, where such a nickname is referred to in French as ""Blason populaire"". Nickname A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place, or thing - commonly used for affection. The term hypocoristic is used to refer to a nickname of affection between those in love or with a close emotional bond, compared with a term of endearment. It is a form of endearment and amusement."
"difference is in the way in which personal names are used in forming specific names or epithets. The ""ICNafp"" sets out precise rules by which a personal name is to be converted to a specific epithet. In particular, names ending in a consonant (but not ""er"") are treated as first being converted into Latin by adding ""-ius"" (for a man) or ""-ia"" (for a woman), and then being made genitive (i.e. meaning ""of that person or persons""). This produces specific epithets like ""lecardii"" for Lecard (male), ""wilsoniae"" for Wilson (female), and ""brauniarum"" for the Braun sisters. By contrast the ""ICZN"""
"English-language names given by WWI troops to places affected by WWI This is a list of English-language names given by World War I troops to places affected by World War I. Indeed, because there were many tensions during World War 1, some places had to be renamed. Since there was a very anti-German sentiment during World War 1, the military and government would rename towns, like Kitchener, Ontario in Canada, which was named Berlin until WWI. Another reason why English-language names were given by troops to places affected by WW1 is that English-speaking troops often fought in unknown territory and"
""""" or , Winston Churchill becomes """" or and Charles de Gaulle """" or . This change also happens in some European languages that use the Latin alphabet such as Lithuanian and Latvian. The name Catherine Ashton for instance gets transliterated into ""Ketrin Ešton"" in Serbian and Lithuanian alike. An exception to this are place names which are so well known as to have their own form (exonym): just as English has ""Vienna, Austria"" (and not German ""Wien, Österreich"") so Croatian and romanization of Serbian have ""Beč, Austrija."" Incomplete romanization of Serbian is written using the English alphabet, also known"
"be carried out by: Humanist names, assumed by Renaissance humanists, were largely Latinised names, though in some cases (e.g. Melanchthon) they invoked Ancient Greek. Latinisation in humanist names may consist of translation from vernacular European languages, sometimes involving a playful element of punning. Such names could be a cover for humble social origins. The title of the ""Wilhelmus"", national anthem of the Netherlands, preserves a Latinised form of the name of William the Silent. Latinisation is a common practice for scientific names. For example, ""Livistona"", the name of a genus of palm trees, is a Latinisation of ""Livingstone"". In English,"
"""words indicationg tuition and places of education"". Bombers were to be named after inland towns in the British Empire, for example the Avro Lancaster and Fairey Battle. With the introduction of Helicopters these were to be named after trees but only the Bristol Sycamore was named in this scheme. The name (""type name"") of an aircraft type would be agreed between the Air Ministry or Admiralty and the manufacturer/importer when the order was placed. Names generally followed one or a number of patterns: The systems began to change in the immediate post-Second World War period with the V bombers and"
"as Byzantion (Greek: Βυζάντιον, Latin: ), named after its mythical founder, Byzas. Exonym and endonym An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect. It is a common name used only outside the place, group, or linguistic community in question. An endonym or autonym is an internal name for a geographical place, a group of people, or a language or dialect. It is a common name used only inside the place, group, or linguistic community in question; it is their name for themselves, their homeland,"