I want to know the answer to the following question:
The mahayana occasionally referred to early Buddhism as what?
All the background I'm provided with is that "Scholar Isabelle Onians asserts that although "the Mahāyāna ... very occasionally referred contemptuously to earlier Buddhism as the Hinayāna, the Inferior Way," "the preponderance of this name in the secondary literature is far out of proportion to occurrences in the Indian texts.". Is that enough to answer the question?
Answer: no