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If you are ever involved in an onomastic debate with a Mormon missionary, just ask him if he has heard of Ammah.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or explaining a name or names.
  2. adjective Of or relating to onomastics.

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  • If you are ever involved in an onomastic debate with a Mormon missionary, just ask him if he has heard of Ammah. —  Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog
  • Perhaps there are onomastic clues (his last name, etc.) and others that would enable the reader to piece together the underlying account of which the pirate tale is the symbolic transformation. —  Jonathan Goodwin
  • As with the other branches, fragments of lore and onomastic tales are woven into the texture of the narrative. —  languagehat.com
  • The paper, to its journalistic credit, did track down Iris, and dutifully reports her age (23) and majors at Michigan (poli sci and Spanish) and the fact that she was the victim of the occasional onomastic jibe as a child (who wasn't?). —  Name of the Year
 

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  1. French onomastique, from Greek onomastikos, from onomazein, to name, from onoma, name; see nŏ̄-men- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French onomastique = Portuguese Italian onomastico; from Greek ὀνομαστικός, of or belonging to names, from ὀνομαστός, verbal noun of ὀνομάζειν, name, from ὀνομα, a name: see onym.
 

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/ɑnəˈmæstɪk/
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