endonym

English

Etymology

From endo- (“inside”) +‎ -onym (“name”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndə(ʊ)nɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndəˌnɪm/, /ˈɛndoʊˌnɪm/

“endonym”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Noun

Examples
Deutsche is the endonym of a people known in English as German Mapuche is the endonym for the people referred to by outsiders as Araucanos

endonym (plural endonyms)

1. A name used by a group or category of people (an ingroup) to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups (outgroups).

   Synonyms: autonym, selfname

   Antonyms: exonym, xenonym

   • 2009 May, Paul Woodman, “The Nature of the Endonym”, in UN‎, page 2:

     The endonym is the basic toponymic exemplar and as such it needs to be understood properly. To do so we need to appreciate the context of space and place that produces it. Most endonyms arise from the elemental human relationship with space and place, and possess an intrinsic and enduring value which cannot normally be either bestowed or removed by political arbitrariness.

Derived terms

• endonymic
• endonymous

Related terms

• ethnonym
• glossonym
• autoglossonym

Translations

a name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language

Catalan: endònim m Chinese: Mandarin: 當地地名 / 当地地名 (dāngdì dìmíng) Czech: endonymum n Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: endoniem (nl) n Esperanto: endonimo Estonian: endonüüm Finnish: endonyymi (fi) French: endonyme (fr) m Galician: endónimo m Georgian: თვითდასახელება (tvitdasaxeleba), ენდონიმი (endonimi) German: Eigenbezeichnung (de) f; Endonym (de) n Hindi: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: endonima Italian: endonimo (it) m Japanese: 内名 (ないめい, naimei), エンドニム (endonimu) Macedonian: ендоним m (endonim) Persian: نام داخلی (nâm-e dâxeli) Polish: endonim (pl) m inan Portuguese: endônimo m (Brasil), endónimo m (Portugal) Romanian: endonim n Russian: эндо́ним (ru) m (endónim), самоназва́ние (ru) n (samonazvánije), автоэтно́ним (ru) m (avtoetnónim) Spanish: endónimo (es) m Swedish: endonym c, autonym c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: самона́зва f (samonázva), ендо́нім m (endónim) Vietnamese: tên địa phương, tên bản địa, nội danh

Further reading

• endonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia