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Subject:Re: Word hunt From:David Locke <locke -at- SUGAR-LAND -dot- ANADRILL -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 13 Nov 1996 09:37:00 +0000
At 03:41 PM 11/12/96 -0600, you wrote:
>> Ze question is:
>> I'm searching for a word that means "the thing you're
>> named after." Not namesake--that's the other way
>> around. This would be like: the State of Indiana was
>> Indiana Jones' ______________.
What about patronymic? Like in Russian: Ivan Ivanovich ...
David
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