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Caution: etymologically-oriented answers generally miss important nominological / nymological / onomatological / onomastic foundations. This namespace is a "synthetic" social construction. It has interesting "quirks", "gotchas", and "zingers".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onomatology

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-nym

http://messymatters.com/nominology/




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