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Subject:Re: Word hunt From:"Virginia J. Link" <LINKVI -at- MAIL -dot- STATE -dot- WI -dot- US> Date:Tue, 12 Nov 1996 16:10:40 -0600
How about "progenitor"?
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Ze question is:
I'm searching for a word that means "the thing you're named after." Not
namesake--that's the other way around. This would be like: the State of
Indiana was Indiana Jones' ______________.
