Ananym
An ananym is a word whose spelling is derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of anagram. There is a long history of names being coined as ananyms of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by the ananym.
An animation of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by the ananym
Examples
Click on a label to change the sorting.
| Ananym | Derived from | Explanation | Type | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20461 Dioretsa | asteroid | asteroid with retrograde orbit | astronomy | |
| Livic | civil (engineering) | trade newspaper, "a reflection of Civil Engineering" | work | |
| Rekkof Aircraft | Fokker | Rekkof aircraft are based on Fokker designs | business | |
| yrneh | henry | A unit of measurement for reciprocal electrical inductance. | electricity | |
| daraf | farad | a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal farad. | electricity | |
| mho | ohm | A unit of electrical conductance which is the reciprocal of an ohm. Now known by its official SI name "siemens" although mho is still sometimes used. | electricity | |
| Trebor | Robert | Source of the names of Trebor confectionery, Robert Trebor, and probably Trebor the composer | name (alias) and product | |
| Trebor and Werdna | Robert [Woodhead] and Andrew [C. Greenberg] | Characters in Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord computer game named after its programmers. | work | |
| Seltaeb | Beatles | Beatles' merchandising company | business | |
| Llareggub | "bugger all" | In Under Milk Wood | work | |
| Harpo Productions | Oprah (Winfrey) | Oprah's media company | business | |
| Senim Silla | "all is mines" | "mines" is AAVE for "mine". | name (alias) | [1] |
| Navi | (Virgil) Ivan (Grissom) | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
| Dnoces | (Edward H. White the) Second | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
| Regor | Roger (Chaffee) | Apollo program joke by Grissom | astronomy | [2] |
| Erewhon | "nowhere" | A utopia. The digraph <wh> is not reversed. Many names within the book are also ananyms. | work | [3] |
| elgooG | reverse-spelling search engine | business | ||
| Xallarap | parallax | Converse microlensing effect | term | |
| Ebbot (Lundberg) | Tobbe | Tobbe is the usual hypocoristic of Torbjörn, his real given name. | name (alias) | |
| 로꾸거 (Rokuko) | 거꾸로 (gokkuro) | Backwards for Korean for "backwards" | work | |
| semordnilap | palindrome | A semi-palindrome | term | |
| Xvid | DivX | A competitor | product | |
| Trugoy (The Dove) | yogurt | He likes yogurt | name (alias) | |
| Posdnuos | "Sound-Sop" | High school DJing nickname | name (alias) | |
| MAPS (Mail Abuse Prevention System) | spam | reverse backronym | product | |
| Alucard | Dracula | Borne by various characters derived from Dracula | work | |
| Nimda | admin | The computer worm assumed admin-like powers. | product | |
| Nogard | Dragon | Character in Alan F. Beck art series The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot | name | [4] |
| Emirp | Prime | An emirp is a prime number that results in a different prime when its digits are reversed. | term | |
| (Coquitlam) Adanac(s) | Canada | Team is Canadian | organization | |
| Nujabes | Jun Seba | His real name | name (alias) | |
| Essiac | Rene Caisse | Its inventor | product | |
| "Revilo" | Oliver Christianson | His real name | name (alias) | |
| Adanac(, Nipissing District, Ontario) | Canada | Location | placename | |
| "Airegin" | Nigeria | Composer Sonny Rollins is African American | work | |
| Yarg | (Allan and Jenny) Gray | Couple who provided the recipe | product | |
| Soma Records | Amos Heilicher | Owner | business | |
| Nomad (band) | Damon (Rochefort) | Founder member | organization | |
| Gnip Gnop | ping pong | Reminiscent of the other tabletop game | product | |
| Trebloc, Mississippi | Colbert | Local family, whose name is found in many places; the reversal was "to avoid further repetition". | placename | [5] |
| "Nagirroc" | Corrigan | Owner's surname | placename | |
| Strebor | Roberts | Founder/owner? | business | |
| Ridan (horse) | Nadir | Named after another horse | name (animal) | |
| Niloak Pottery | kaolin | Material used in products | business | |
| Rellim Farm | (Paul) Miller | Founder | business | |
| Yellek, Ontario | (R. J.) Kelley | Trainmaster at the passing point | placename | |
| Nomar (Garciaparra) | Ramon | His father's name | name | |
| OAT (organizing autonomous telecomms) | TAO (The Anarchy Organization) | reverse backronym of its former name | organization | |
| Kroz | Zork | Homage to older computer game | product | |
| Ani Lorak | Karolina | Her real forename | name (alias) | |
| Sevas Tra | "art saves" | work | ||
| Azed | (Diego) Deza | Crossword compiler named after Spanish inquisitor | name (alias) | [6] |
| Tesremos | (Derrick) Somerset (Macnutt) | His middle name | name (alias) | [7] |
| Sualocin | Nicolaus (Venator) | Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed | astronomy | [8] |
| Rotanev | (Nicolaus) Venator | Niccolò Cacciatore's name (~Nicholas Hunter) Latinized and reversed | astronomy | [8] |
| Senrab (F.C.) | Barnes | After Senrab Street, after Barnes Street | organization | |
| (Neuchâtel) Xamax | Max (Abegglen) | Founder, backwards and forwards | organization | |
| C. W. Ceram | K. W. Marek | Surname Latinised and reversed | name (alias) | [9] |
| Allerednic | Cinderella | A "riches to rags" tale as opposed to Cinderella's rags to riches. Used by Jonathan Gershuny of high-achieving women whose careers stall after marriage.[10] | term | |
| Llamedos | sod 'em all | in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels (modelled on Llaregub) | placename | [11] |
| Nevaeh | Heaven | feminine name | name | |
| Гярб вечнълс (Giarb vechnals) | Слънчев бряг (Slanchev briag, "Sunny Beach") | Bulgarian alphabet ananym | placename | |
| Namyats | [Sam] Stayman | Bridge convention invented by Stayman, who also invented the Stayman convention. | term | [12] |
| Adaven | Nevada | ghost town | placename | |
| Etnaviv | Vivante | open-source driver for Vivante GPU | product | |
| Lima | Mali | open-source driver for ARM Mali GPU | product | |
| Namor | Roman | Comic book character whose creator wrote down noble-sounding names backwards and thought Roman/Namor looked the best | name | |
| Eivets Rednow | Stevie Wonder | Music album named from its artist | work | |
| Yen Sid | Disney | The powerful sorcerer in Fantasia (1940), whose apprentice Mickey Mouse causes mayhem after borrowing his master's hat. | name | [13] |
gollark: Ah, so it also scrapes search results?
gollark: ddg! cryoapioforms
gollark: Actually, Rust is perfect and without flaw, and everyone knows that what adding two arrays obviously ought to do is join the elements with commas then concat the resulting strings.
gollark: Hmm. Apparently autocomplete in VSCode mysteriously stopped working.
gollark: "Yes, this angle is 3141 milliradians".
Notes
- "Crazy Illa Wulf" (May 2007). "Senim Silla: return of a star". platform8470. Gistel, Belgium. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- Harland, David Michael (2007). The first men on the moon: the story of Apollo 11. Springer. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-387-34176-7. Retrieved 22 February 2011.
- Balfour Daniels, R. (Winter 1969). "Names in the Fiction of Samuel Butler (1835-1902)". The South Central Bulletin. Johns Hopkins University Press, South Central Modern Language Association. 29 (4): 129–132. JSTOR 3187333.
- Alan F. Beck, The Adventures of Nogard & Jackpot , 2009. ISBN 978-1449519391
- Phelps, Dawson A.; Edward Hunter Ross (Fall 1952). "Names Please: Place Names along the Natchez Trace" (PDF). The Journal of Mississippi History. Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Mississippi Historical Society. 14: 240. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
- Room (2010), p.40
- Room (2010), p.517
- Ridpath, Ian; Tirion, Wil (2007). Stars and planets: the most complete guide to the stars, planets, galaxies, and the solar system. Princeton University Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-691-13556-4.
- Room (2010), p.99
- Gershuny, Jonathan (1999). Quality and Quantity. 33 (3): 277–289. doi:10.1023/A:1004648804214. Missing or empty
|title=(help); Langdon, Julia (13 August 2000). "Cherie Booth: Now you see her, now you don't". The Independent. Retrieved 23 April 2019.; Hay, Hannah Furness (31 May 2013). "Hay Festival 2013: Working women are Cinderella in reverse". Retrieved 23 April 2019. - http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/index.php/Llamedos
- "Namyats (4C, 4D, 4H, 4S) - Bridge Bidding Convention". BridgeHands. Petaluma, California. 22 January 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- Koehler, Dorene (2017). The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland. Indiana University Press. p. 161.
References
- Room, Adrian (2010-07-26). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4373-4. Retrieved 15 January 2011.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.