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the original act of power — to name a thing is to claim it
means The act of giving a name to a person, place, thing, or idea — assigning the word by which it will be known.
from From Old English 'nama,' the noun for a name, which sprouted the verb 'namian' (to name) and from there the gerund 'naming.' It belongs to a deep Germanic family — German 'Name,' Dutch 'naam' — and reaches all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*nomn-,' the same ancient seed behind Latin 'nomen' and Greek 'onoma.' Across thousands of years and dozens of tongues, the word for 'name' has barely changed its shape, as if the very act of naming were too fundamental to be renamed.
- adam's gig
- first human job in Genesis was naming animals
- true name
- countless myths grant control through a hidden name
- costly miss
- companies pay agencies millions for single words
- taboo zones
- some cultures forbid speaking the dead's names
- baby boom
- popular names cluster, then vanish for generations
the naming of paris — shakespeare's play where paris names himself as the one who will marry helen of troy
linnaeus binomial nomenclature — carl linnaeus created the modern naming system for all species in 1735
treaty of versailles naming — 1919 document that named the war reparations and territorial changes after world war i