| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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Appendix I
Indo-European Roots |
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| ENTRY: | n -men- |
| DEFINITION: | Name. Oldest form * 1no(&schwa3)-m , zero-grade form *1(3)-men-. 1. name, from Old English nama, name, from Germanic *nam n-. 2. nominal, nominate, noun; agnomen, binomial, cognomen, denominate, ignominy, misnomer, nomenclator, nuncupative, praenomen, pronoun, renown, from Latin nmen, name, reputation. 3. onomastic, –onym, –onymy; allonym, anonymous, antonomasia, eponym, eponymous, euonymus, heteronymous, homonymous, matronymic, metonymy, onomatopoeia, paronomasia, paronymous, patronymic, pseudonym, synonymous, from Greek onoma, onuma, name (assimilated from enuma, preserved in proper names in Laconian). 4. moniker, from Old Irish ainm, name. (Pokorny en(o)m- 321.) |
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