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Words in English with the suffix "-onym" refer to words with a particular property. Most of them are classical compounds. For example an acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of other words. Some words have the "-nym" form rather than the "-onym" form, such as "ananym" or "hypernym", but that may be more for ease of pronunciation than for etymological reasons. The English suffix "-onym" is from the Greek suffix -, which is the form taken by Greek = "name" when it is the end component of a bahuvrihi compound, but in English its use extended to tatpurusa compounds. These "-onym" words may be freely created, sometimes for no other reason than to give an erudite impression of the user who expects his listeners to understand Greek, and it is in this way that words such as "ornithonym" or "ichthyonym" may be formed.
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Gorilla gorilla; a scientific name in which the specific name is repeated, such as Homo sapiens sapiens as distinct from Homo sapiens neanderthalensis; a noun component that is repeated, such as aye-aye or tom-tom; a personal name where both forename and surname are identical, such as Francis Francis; also, the generic name Carnotaurus, which seems to be its own class of tautonym taxonym: a name used for classification or identification purposes, usually signifying a relationship to something. Taxonyms include binomens, names of clades or taxons, demonyms, ethnonyms, and eponyms. Examples include canine, hominid, and Dryad. theonym: a name for a god. In Abrahamic faiths the origin and meaning of the Tetragrammaton is sometimes deemed to have important historical or even metaphysical meaning. toponym: a place or geographical name; the name of an area of the body, as distinguished from the name of an organ troponym: a verb that indicates more precisely the manner of doing something by its replacing a verb of a more generalized meaning, for example "strolling" is a leisurely manner of "walking".
See also
Neologism
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