Personal name component related to the mother.
A name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor.
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Examples for "metronymic "
Examples for "metronymic "
1 The Iroquois Indians, among whom Morgan lived, were a typical maternal or metronymic people.
2 Among many tribes of the North American Indians this metronymic or maternal system was peculiarly well-developed.
3 Strictly speaking, therefore, there has never been a matriarchal stage of social evolution, but rather a maternal or metronymic stage.
1 Wherefore she has gotten her name in the good books of the sociological philosophers who uphold the matronymic theory touching early society.
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