endonymn.
/ˈɛndə(ʊ)nɪm/, U.S. /ˈɛndəˌnɪm/, /ˈɛndoʊˌnɪm/ Social Sciences.
A name for something, esp. a place, a group of people, or a language, that is used internally in that place, or by that people or language community themselves; such as Napoli for Naples, Quechan for Yuma, etc. Opposed to exonym (see exonym n.).
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the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > other specific names or types of name
the Holy Namec1440
Singh1623
specification1633
indigitamenta1657
explicative1669
ethnic1791
household name1804
class term1811
book name1815
biverb1831
class word1837
family name1840
class name1843
ananym1867
papponymic1875
autonym1879
throne name1880
demonymic1893
ethnonym1894
a name to conjure with1901
praise name1904
self-reference1948
exonym1957
specific1962
endonym1970
demonym1990
1970 J. B. Crain Lun Dayeh of Sabah, E. Malaysia (Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ.) 17 The term ‘Murut’..is purely an externally applied label and apparently nowhere is it used as a self-referent (endonym).
1982 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 81 532 [He] had the bravery..to recognize Yiddish as a language in its own right, not a ‘dialect’ of German, and to call it by its endonym, yidish.., not by the then usual ‘scholarly’ exonym, ‘Judaeo-German’.
2012 N.Y. Times Blogs (Nexis) 10 Apr. In current usage, many exonyms can be considered insensitive (Gypsy, Lapp, Hottentot), and preference is given to the endonym (Roma, Saami, Khoi-San).
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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