EPONYM

Penn, to Pennsylvania

• Mae West, for one

• Mae West for life jacket

• A word derived from a person's name

• Amerigo Vespucci, vis-

• Amp

• Columbus, to Colombia, e.g.

• English inventor Jethro Tull, vis-a-vis the band Jethro Tull

• Euclid, vis-

• Gabriel Fahrenheit or Anders Celsius

• General Anthony Wayne, to Waynesboro

• General Shrapnel or Burnside

• Jim Beam or Jack Daniel

• Karl Benz or Henry Ford

• Monroe for Monrovia

• Name derivation

• Name derived from a person

• Name identified with a place

• Name source

• Name-giver

• Name, of a sort

• Namesake

• Ohm or joule, e.g.

• Penn, vis-

• Person for whom something is named

• Person from whom something takes its name

• Rob Roy or Shirley Temple

• Romulus to Rome, e.g.

• Romulus, for one

• Romulus, vis-

• Rudolf Diesel, for one

• Rudolf Diesel, re the diesel

• Sam Houston, to Houston

• Sandwich or leotard, e.g.

• Shirley Temple or Tom Collins

• Shirley Temple, to Shirley Temples, for one

• The Earl of Sandwich or Vidkun Quisling

• The Earl of Sandwich, for one

• Thor, for a day

• Thursday from Thor e.g.

• Watt or Ohm, e.g.

• What Romulus was to Rome

• Word derived from a name

• Word derived from someone's name

• Word from a name

• A name derived from the name of person (real or imaginary) as the name of Alexandria is derived from the name of its founder Alexander the Great

• The name of a person for whom something is supposedly named