deonymization
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English deonymization
From de- + onymization, or from deonym + -ization.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /diːˌɒnɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /diːˌɒnɪmɪˈzeɪʃən/
- (General American) IPA(key): /diˌɑnɪmaɪˈzeɪʃən/, /diˌɑnɪmɪˈzeɪʃən/
Noun
deonymization (countable and uncountable, plural deonymizations)
- The loss of the onymic function or character of a proper name.
- Synonyms: appellativization, deproprialization
- Antonyms: deappellativization, onymization, proprialization
- Hyponym: genericization
- 2026, Yurii Kovbasko, “Necessary versus luxury loanwords in the 20th c. Ukranian immigrants' lexicon in Brazil”, in Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos, volume 68, , e026009, page 16:
- For instance, 120 direct words were borrowed in a single specific sphere alone, not to mention numerous loan translations, lexical and semantic substitutions, and deonymizations, whereby a proper name loses its uniqueness and becomes a common name denoting a whole class of objects.
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- English terms prefixed with de-
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *déh₁
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *de
- English terms suffixed with -ization
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁nómn̥
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