exonym

See also: Exonym

English

Etymology

From exo- (“outside”) +‎ -onym (“name”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛksənɪm/, /ˈɛɡzənɪm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

Examples
Moscow in English for the city called Moskva in Russian Charles in English for historical people called Karl or Carl in their Germanic languages

exonym (plural exonyms)

1. An external name for a place, people or a language used by outgroup members (such as foreigners) instead of ingroup members (such as native-language speakers).

   Synonym: xenonym

   Antonyms: endonym, autonym, selfname

   • 2019 January 4, Sarah Zhang, “Why Mandarin Doesn’t Come From Chinese”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     “Mandarin” is what linguists call an exonym, an external name for a place, people, or language. And exonyms often tell of a history of how cultures met, fought, and interacted.

Derived terms

• exonymous

Translations

name used by foreigners

• Armenian: էկզոնիմ (ēkzonim)
• Catalan: exònim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 外來地名／外来地名 (wàilái dìmíng)

• Czech: exonymum (cs) n
• Dutch: exoniem (nl) n
• Esperanto: eksonimo
• Estonian: eksonüüm
• Finnish: eksonyymi (fi), sovinnaisnimi
• French: exonyme (fr) m
• Galician: exónimo m
• German: Fremdbezeichnung (de); (specialist also) Exonym (de), Exonymon n
• Greek: εξώνυμο (el) n (exónymo)
• Hungarian: exonima
• Italian: esonimo (it) m
• Japanese: 外名 (がいめい, gaimei), エクソニム (ekusonimu)
• Latvian: eksonīms m
• Macedonian: егзони́м m (egzoním)
• Persian: برون‌نام (borun-nâm)
• Polish: egzonim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: exônimo (pt) m (Brasil), exónimo (pt) m (Portugal)
• Romanian: exonim n
• Russian: экзо́ним (ru) m (ekzónim), иноназва́ние n (inonazvánije)
• Slovak: exonymum n
• Spanish: exónimo (es) m
• Swedish: exonym (sv) c

See also

• category:en:Exonyms for a list

Further reading

• exonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “exonym”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.