Exonymy

Quick meaning: Exonymy is a noun meaning The use of the name for a group or geographic region by outsiders, as opposed to that by its members or inhabitants.

Meaning

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

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).

As such, there arises a symbolic association between endonymy and the firstborn, and exonymy and the last-born, in keeping with the idea that the firstborn represents internal continuity and the last-born represents the transformation associated with exteriority. Indeed, in the practice of name-giving, the names of the firstborn come from the closest kin and from what is "inside", whereas the names of the last-born come from more distant kin and from what is increasingly "outside."

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Related dictionary entries include exonym, endoynym, oeconym, oikonym, landfolk, foreign.

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