Eponyms, Coinage

Hanna Karina Flores Enriquez

Humberto Sainz Martinez
Cynthia Jimena Ramirez Rodriguez
 Eponyms
● “The name of an object or activity that is
also the name of the person who first
produced the object or did the
activity”(Cambridge Dictionary)
 Eponyms examples
● Rutherfordium, named after Ernest
Rutherford. The scientist that discovered it.
● Diesel,this field used in trucks and and other
equipment is named after Rudolph Diesel.
● America,the word America is named after
Italian Map Marker, Amerigo Vespucci.
 Eponyms examples
● Alberico’s Broad-nosed Bat (In the book of
The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals we can
find an infinity of examples ,one of them is
the name of a bat that was named after Dr.
Michael Alberico).
● 
Alzheimer’s disease ( Alois Alzheimer)

 Coinage
● It is simply that speakers invent new words
to denote previously nonexistent objects or
concepts.
(https://semanticsmorphology.weebly.co
m/other-word-formation-processes.)
 Coinage examples
● “The most common examples are invented
trade names for commercial products which
gradually become general terms (mostly
without using capital letters) for any form of
that product” (Yule, 2010, p. 53; Fromkin et
al. 2011, p. 501).
Coinage examples
 Coinage examples
● Frisbee
● Kleenex
● Boy band
● Band aid
● Zipper
 References
● Umair Linguistics.(2018,December 4).What is coinage, what are eponyms, word formation processes, lecture 26
[Video ].Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BIr33I9CSE
● 
 eolens, B., Grayson, M., & Watkins, M. (2009). The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals. Johns Hopkins University
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Press.
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