Theonymy

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The names given to gods, collectively. uncountable

    "The widespread occurrence of both roots in the theonymy of the Indo-European world, their prevalent merger into one divine name, and the striking resemblance in mythological functions tied to this onomastics enable us to look for the same ancestry of all historically attested variants."

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"The widespread occurrence of both roots in the theonymy of the Indo-European world, their prevalent merger into one divine name, and the striking resemblance in mythological functions tied to this onomastics enable us to look for the same ancestry of all historically attested variants."

Etymology

From theo- + -onymy.

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