Coinage and Eponyms

Morphology:
Coinage and Eponym
Coinage: a. A new word or phrase.

          b. The invention of new words

Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes and often from seemingly nothing. For example, the following list of words provides some common coinages found in everyday English:

• aspirin
• escalator
• heroin
• band-aid
• factoid
• Frisbee
• Google
• kerosene
• Kleenex
• Laundromat
• linoleum
• muggle
• nylon
• psychedelic
• quark
• Xerox
• zipper

An eponym as we will use the term here is an ordinary common noun derived from a proper noun, the name of a person or place. Words like quisling, sandwich, and silhouette are solid eponyms. Some eponymous words are still capitalized like a proper noun, so those not capitalized are most clearly eponyms. The important, defining property is that the word does not refer exclusively to the person or place named by the proper noun, as does Marxism or Christian, but is used to refer to a general category, as do quisling, boycott and fuchsias. 

• atlas – Atlas
• boycott – Charles C. Boycott
• cardigan – James Thomas Brudnell, 7th Earl of Cardigan
• cereal – Ceres
• dunce – John Duns Scotus
• guillotine – Joseph Ignace Guillotin
• jacuzzi – Candido Jacuzzi
• luddite – Ned Ludd
• malapropism – Mrs. Malaprop
• mesmerize – Franz Anton Mesmer
• mirandize – Ernesto A. Miranda
• narcissistic – Narcissus
• nicotine – Jean Nicot
• pasteurization – Louis Pasteur
• poinsettia – Noel Roberts Poinsett
• praline – César de Choiseul, Count Plessis–Praslin
• sadistic – Marquis de Sade
• salmonella – Daniel Elmer Salmon
• sandwich – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
• volcano – Vulcan

List of eponyms, please look at:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/articles/eponyms/index.html