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Exonym vs Exonymic - What's the difference?

exonym | exonymic |

As a noun exonym

is exonym .

As an adjective exonymic is

being or pertaining to an exonym.

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

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    References

    exonymic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Being or pertaining to an exonym.