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interesting, I've always used "nonymous" for that, but "onymous" is etymologically sounder
by zem 10y ago
interesting, I've always used "nonymous" for that, but "onymous" is etymologically sounder
- jcranmer 10y agoYeah, I was going to say "nonymous" was etymologically superior, but then I looked up the etymology for anonymous before hitting send. Given that the English (/Germanic) is "name" and the French is "nom", I would have expected the PIE for name to be some sort of "nVm"-ish thing, whence I expected the Greek to render it is some sort of "non"-ish thing. The actual Greek is ónoma, with the PIE being something like *hnómn. (So my PIE guess was right-ish, but the transition to Hellenic was wrong).