Meaning of isonymy | Babel Free

Definitions

The property of having the same name, especially the same family name.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“This was reflected also in three types of measure⟳ of inbreeding: (1) close⟳ inbreeding recorded in ecclesiastical dispensations for marriages of relatives; (2) total inbreeding from pedigrees; and (3) inbreeding from marital isonymy.”

“The absolute isonymies calculated from them are given in Table 6, the relative isonymies in Table 7. Absolute and relative isonymies obtained from the remaining 1035 less common surnames are in Table 8 and Table 9, respectively.”

“Undoubtedly the most serious problem encountered in using isonymy data is “polyphyletism”: surnames often have⟳ multiple ancestral origins, which means that many isonymous marriage partners can be unrelated.”

“Our final test⟳ of the methods robustness is to make⟳ a direct⟳ comparison between the census evidence and the isonymy evidence about migrant origins.”

CEFR level