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Where does “ὄνομα” come from?

ὄνομα (Ancient Greek) comes from Proto-Indo-European h₁nómn̥, from Proto-Indo-European h₃neh₃- — to name.

ὄνομα (Ancient Greek): name; fame; noun, in the wide sense: referring to...

Definitions

  1. name; fame; noun, in the wide sense: referring to...

Ancestry of “ὄνομα”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁nómn̥name
2Proto-Indo-Europeanh₃neh₃-to name

Words derived from “ὄνομα”

  • anonymous
  • synonymous
  • anonymity
  • synonym
  • pseudonym
  • anonymously
  • eponymous
  • metonymy
  • Hieronymus
  • metonymic
  • synonymously
  • pseudonymous
  • synonymy
  • onomatopoeia
  • metonymically
  • nonsynonymous
  • onomatopoeic
  • homonym
  • onomastic
  • anonymization
  • ethnonym
  • pseudonymously
  • pseudonymity
  • nonny
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