New Words

Created a new word in Linguistics yesterday.

We were discussing word-formation processes and as we were discussing eponyms someone asked "what about words like Darwinism?" The teacher was at a bit of a loss, and it seemed like there wasn't a term to really describe those types of words specifically. So I shot out "wouldn't they be some kind of eponymous derrivation?" Half the class laughed at me because I'm that know-it-all kid, but then the teacher got all bright-eyed and wrote it down on the overhead. Eponymous derrivation is now in the lecture notes.