Word of the day: exonym

I confess that I had to look this word up when I saw in used by a friend in a Facebook posting (he’s a bit of a medical buff).

It means: a name used by foreigners for a place (such as as Florence for Firenze or Londres for London) or a name used by foreigners to refer to a people or social group that the group itself does not use (such as the inhabitants of northern Britain called Picts by the Romans or more recently the use of Germans for Deutsche).


 




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