different between heathenry vs byname

English

Etymology

heathen +? -ry

Noun

heathenry (usually uncountable, plural heathenries)

1. The state of being heathen.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Heathenry (“Germanic (neo)paganism”)
   • 2019, Theodoric Dukka, A Heathen's Guide Experiences & Advice On Magic & Spiritworking, Lulu.com (?ISBN), page 7:

     Asatru is one of the most popular types of heathenry.

English

Alternative forms

• by-name

Etymology

From by- +? name. Cognate with Dutch bijnaam (“nickname”), German Beiname (“nickname, epithet”), Swedish binamn, Danish binavn and Norwegian Bokmål binavn.

Noun

byname (plural bynames)

1. (archaic, historical) A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
2. (archaic, historical) A nickname.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
4. (Germanic paganism) A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.

Synonyms

• cognomen
• sobriquet
• to-name

Hypernyms

• name

Translations

Verb

byname (third-person singular simple present bynames, present participle bynaming, simple past and past participle bynamed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To assign a byname to.

References

• byname at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• baymen