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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A term, title, or name used for an old person (or set of people)..
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 ...
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).
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) ...
In old age the person is given a gerontonym by which he must be addressed. Thus, after death the person is remembered only by the gerontonym or other teknonym, and the real name is forever lost.
Use gerontonym when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gerontonym means A term, title, or name used for an old person (or set of people)..
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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 ...
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