endonym

English

Etymology

endo- "inside" + -onym "name"

Noun

Wikipedia endonym (plural endonyms)

1. A name used by a group or category of people to refer to themselves or their language, as opposed to a name given to them by other groups. For example, Deutschen is the endonym of a people known in English as German and Mapuche is the endonym for the people referred to by outsiders as Araucanos.

Translations

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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 當地地名 (cmn), 当地地名 (cmn) (dāngdì dìmíng)

• Estonian: endonüüm
• French: endonyme (fr) m
• German: Endonym (de) n

• Italian: endonimo (it) m
• Japanese: 内名 (ja) (ないめい, naimei), エンドニム (ja) (endonimu)
• Russian: эндоним (ru) (endónim) m, самоназвание (ru) (samonazvánije) n, автоэтноним (ru) (avtoetnónim) m

Synonyms

• autonym

Antonyms

• exonym
• xenonym

Related terms

• ethnonym
• glossonym