anthroponym

Definition: A human name.
Example: Richard Nixon
Etymology: The word derives from the Greek anthropos, man + onoma, name.
OED: The word's first OED citation is from 1958: "Kitiak is therefore a toponym. … Others are of the form Udzado or Gbiedo, these are anthroponyms."
(D. Tait in Middleton & Tait Tribes without Rulers 170)



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