By Julia Alvarez. 309 pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $18.95. he had four girls. Enough said.'' Those are the words that the mother of the Garcia sisters, introduced in Julia Alvarez's acclaimed novel ''How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,'' wants inscribed on her tombstone.y Julia Alvarez. 309 pp. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. $18.95. he had four girls. Enough said.'' Those are the words that the mother of the Garcia sisters, introduced in Julia Alvarez's acclaimed novel ''How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,'' wants inscribed on her tombstone.
The Lxx translates it with the Greek verb sozo, which means to rescue one from peril, danger or suffering, to protect from loss or destruction, to heal, to make whole, to keep alive, to preserve life (physical but especially spiritual - compare Ps 6:4, Ps 86:2).
The words metonymy and metonym come from the Greek: Î¼ÎµÏÏÎ½ÏÎ¼Î¯Î±, metÅnymia, metÅnymÃ­a a change of, name from, Î¼ÎµÏÎ¬, meta, metÃ¡ after -beyond, -and, ÏÎ½ÏÎ¼Î¯Î± Ånymia ÅnymÃ­a a suffix used to name, figures of, speech from á½Î½á¿ Î¼Î±, onyma, Ã³nyma. Or á½Î½Î¿Î¼Î±, . onoma Ã³noma name for instanceetonymy (/mÉ¨ËtÉnÉ¨mi/ mi-TONN-É-mee) is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.