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Demonym vs Exonym - What's the difference?

demonym | exonym |

As nouns the difference between demonym and exonym

is that demonym is a name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place that is derived from the name of the place while exonym is a name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.

demonym

Noun

(en noun)
  • A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place that is derived from the name of the place.
  • Why is it that people from the United States use American as ''their'' demonym ?
  • (obsolete) A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
  • The Logophile has my favourite demonym , I would write under it if he didn't.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    See also

    *

    exonym

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
  • Exonyms form a typical (but very useful) example of cultural chauvinism.
  • A place name or a personal nameExonyms and Endonyms'' at www.geocities.com/agihard/ILA-exonym-talk-text.doc page 3 used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as ''Moscow'' in English for the city called ''Moskva'' in Russian, or such as ''Charles'' in English for historical people called ''Karl'' or ''Carl in their Germanic languages.
  • Antonyms

    * endonym

    See also

    * for a list

    References