Caution: etymologically-oriented answers generally miss important nominological / nymological / onomatological / onomastic foundations. This namespace is a "sy

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomastics https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onomatology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/onomatology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nomen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-nym https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-nym http://messymatters.com/nominology/ http://messymatters.com/nominology/