Teknonymy

Teknonymy (from Ancient Greek: τέκνον 'child' and ὄνομα 'name')^[1] is the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children.^[2] This practice can be found in many different cultures around the world. The term was coined by anthropologist Edward Burnett Tylor in an 1889 paper.^[3] Such names are called teknonyms, teknonymics, or paedonymics.^[4]

^ Reflections on Japanese Language and Culture. Studies in the humanities and social relations. Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University. 1987. p. 65. Retrieved 16 June 2019. On the Notion of Teknonymy In the field of anthropology, the custom of calling the parent after the child is known as teknonymy, a term coined from the Greek word teknon "child" and the anglicized form of onoma as onymy "name".
^ Parsons, Elsie Clews (1914). "Teknonymy". American Journal of Sociology. 19 (5): 649–650. doi:10.1086/212300. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2763131.
^ Lee, Kwang-Kyu; Kim Harvey, Youngsook (1973). "Teknonymy and Geononymy in Korean Kinship Terminology". Ethnology. 12 (1): 31–46. doi:10.2307/3773095. JSTOR 3773095.
^ Oxford English Dictionary (2005), "paedonymic, n."

[Reflections_on_Japanese_Language_and_Culture_1987_p._65-1] Reflections on Japanese Language and Culture. Studies in the humanities and social relations. Institute of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, Keio University. 1987. p. 65. Retrieved 16 June 2019. On the Notion of Teknonymy In the field of anthropology, the custom of calling the parent after the child is known as teknonymy, a term coined from the Greek word teknon "child" and the anglicized form of onoma as onymy "name".

[2] Parsons, Elsie Clews (1914). "Teknonymy". American Journal of Sociology. 19 (5): 649–650. doi:10.1086/212300. ISSN 0002-9602. JSTOR 2763131.

[Lee1973-3] Lee, Kwang-Kyu; Kim Harvey, Youngsook (1973). "Teknonymy and Geononymy in Korean Kinship Terminology". Ethnology. 12 (1): 31–46. doi:10.2307/3773095. JSTOR 3773095.

[4] Oxford English Dictionary (2005), "paedonymic, n."

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