"gerontonym" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1981, Patricia Ruth Whittier, Systems of Appellation Among the Kenyah Dayak of Borneo",
          "text": "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.\"",
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          "ref": "1983, Sarawak Museum, The Sarawak Museum Journal",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1990, Jérôme Rousseau, Central Borneo: Ethnic Identity and Social Life in a Stratified Society",
          "text": "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).",
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          "text": "1993, Borneo Research Council (Williamsburg, Va.), The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism, Mediumship and Possession in Borneo\nLake' 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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          "ref": "1998, Jérôme Rousseau, Kayan Religion: Ritual Life and Religious Reform in Central Borneo, Brill",
          "text": "When they reach grand-parental age, people become known by a gerontonym, the titles Lake' ('man') or Doh ('woman') before their own name.",
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          "ref": "2005, Martin Reisigl, Ruth Wodak, Discourse and Discrimination: Rhetorics of Racism and Antisemitism, Routledge",
          "text": "... 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) ...",
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          "ref": "2014, Peter Wategay, Coffin for Two, Partridge Publishing Singapore",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "1993, Borneo Research Council (Williamsburg, Va.), The Seen and the Unseen: Shamanism, Mediumship and Possession in Borneo\nLake' 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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