Demonym vs Exonym - What's the difference?
demonym | exonym |
A name for an inhabitant or native of a specific place that is derived from the name of the place.
(obsolete) A pseudonym formed of an adjective.
A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.
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.
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
English
(wikipedia demonym)Noun
(en noun)- Why is it that people from the United States use American as ''their'' demonym ?
- The Logophile has my favourite demonym , I would write under it if he didn't.
Synonyms
* (l)See also
*exonym
English
Noun
(en noun)- Exonyms form a typical (but very useful) example of cultural chauvinism.