Greek for 'giving one's name to' — Athens was named after Athena, its eponymous goddess.
Giving one's name to something; named after a particular person.
From Greek 'epōnymos' (giving one's name to something or someone), from 'epi-' (upon, over, in addition) + 'onyma' (name, a dialectal form of 'onoma'), from PIE *h₃nómn̥ (name — one of the most conserved words in all Indo-European languages). The PIE word *h₃nómn̥ appears almost unchanged across the entire family: Sanskrit 'nāman,' Latin 'nomen,' Greek 'onoma,' Old English 'nama,' German 'Name,' Old Irish 'ainm,' Armenian 'anun.' Greek 'onoma' generated 'onomastics' (the study of names), 'onomatopoeia' (name-making
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