单词 | tecnonymy |
释义 | > as lemmastecnonymy tecnonymy n. Brit. /tɛkˈnɒnᵻmi/ , U.S. /tɛkˈnɑnəmi/ (also teknonymy) the practice among certain peoples of naming a parent from his or her child. [-onymy comb. form] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > name derived from a child > practice of using paedonymy1883 tecnonymy1888 1888 E. B. Tylor in Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. (1889) Feb. 248 Another custom..is the practice of naming the parent from the child... There are above thirty peoples spread over the earth who thus name the father, and, though less often, the mother. They may be called, coining a name for them, teknonymous peoples. When beginning to notice the wide distribution of this custom of teknonymy [etc.]. 1888 Athenæum 1 Dec. 740/1 Another custom, here called teknonymy [by Dr. E. B. Tylor]..; as an example was mentioned the name of Ra-Mary, or Father of Mary, by which Moffat was generally known in Africa. 1937 R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory vii. 81 Teknonymy is no longer the inevitable effect of matrilocal residence or of an avoidance rule. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization i. 9 A child does not take its name from its parents; on the contrary, in the institution of teknonymy they are known as ‘Father and Mother of So-and-so’. < as lemmas |
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