gerontonym

Example Sentences

• "The Kenyah do not formally recognize any change in the individual's life, other than the acquiring of grandchildren, as a factor in the use of the gerontonym, but most people who are known by gerontonyms are beginning to "retire.""
• "The use of the gerontonym is a form of respect, and it supersedes the teknonym or necronym. One does not attain a gerontonym simply by becoming a grandparent : young grandparents are not so designated."
• "Among the Lepo Tau , the assumption of a gerontonym tends to coincide with a gradual retirement from economic (although not political or ritual) participation (P. Whittier 1981: 140)."
• "1993, Borneo Research Council (Williamsburg, Va.), The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism, Mediumship and Possession in Borneo Lake' is the gerontonym for men of grandparental generation ("doh" : "woman"). La'ing jok was the man's name. While Lake' is a title of respect, there was an element of irony in its use here. 14. Most Kayan men interpreted the ..."
• "When they reach grand-parental age, people become known by a gerontonym, the titles Lake' ('man') or Doh ('woman') before their own name."
• "... this discourse were: 'Austria' (note the metonymic synecdochic totum pro parte), 'Waldheim' (often taken as a pars pro toto for all 'respectable' Austrians), 'the People's Party', 'the Wehrmacht generation' (note the militarising metonymic gerontonym) ..."