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nameworthy

adj

Etymology

From name + -worthy.

  1. inherited from *h₁nómn̥✻ — “name”
  2. inherited from *namô✻ — “name”
  3. inherited from *namō✻
  4. inherited from nama
  5. inherited from name
  6. suffixed as nameworthy — “name + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of being named or having a name

    Worthy of being named or having a name; nameable; worthy of mention.

    • Languor was not in his heart, Weariness not on his brow. . . . for, while he ailed in body, he was, as man, seeking the good of the 'man' in us; he was naming to us nameworthy things that he saw; he was seeking to make us well.
    • [...] pound is intended to serve as a short-cut means of singling out a particular referent or class of referents although the referent or class in question may not really be nameworthy in the long run.
    • Words are created for a purpose, as labels for recurring, nameworthy concepts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nameworthy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA