Eponyms
New words based on the name of a person or a place are called eponyms. When we talked about a hoover (or even a spangler), we were using an eponym. Some eponyms are technical terms, based on the names of those who first discovered or invented things. Other common eponyms are
- sandwich (from the eighteenth-century Earl of Sandwich who first insisted on having his bread and meat together while gambling)
- jeans (from the Italian city of Genoa where the type of cloth was first made).
- Fahrenheit (from the German, Gabriel Fahrenheit),
- volt (from the Italian, Alessandro Volta)
- watt (from the Scottish inventor, James Watt).
- coulomb (from the scientist name,Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
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