Endonymy

Quick meaning: Endonymy is a noun meaning (semantics) A relationship of semantic inclusion, such as that between "store" and "shopping mall".

Meaning

(semantics) A relationship of semantic inclusion, such as that between "store" and "shopping mall".

More Meanings

1. The use of the name for a group or geographic region by its members or inhabitants, as opposed to the nomenclature used by outsiders.

Example Sentences

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Brazil/Paris) analysed the comparative relation between exonymy and endonymy in lowland South America.

First it will examine the etymologies of the various groups as products of Egyptian nomenclature (exonymy) or indigenous nomenclature (endonymy).

Strictly speaking, endonymy is such a general meaning relation that it would cover hyponymy and certain part–whole relationships, e.g. finger and hand, as well as the kind of examples just listed.

In contrast to Kroeger (1998: 154)'s suggestion that ethnonyms beginning with Uma'should be applied to Kayan whereas the ones with Lepo'to Kenyah, the facts about Borneo tradition of endonymy are far more complex.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include comeronymy, meronymy, holonymy, meronym, hyponymy, homonymy.

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