endonym

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndə(ʊ)nɪm/ (EN-doh-nim)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndəˌnɪm/ (EN-duh-nim)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛndoʊˌnɪm/ (EN-doh-nim)

“endonym”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Etymology

From endo- (“inside”) +‎ -onym (“name”).

Noun

Examples
Deutsche is the endonym of a people known in English as German Mapuche is the endonym for the people referred to by outsiders as Araucanos

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.

   Synonyms: autonym, selfname

   Antonyms: exonym, xenonym

Derived terms

• endonymous

Related terms

• ethnonym
• glossonym
• autoglossonym

Translations

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

• Catalan: endònim m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 當地地名／当地地名 (dāngdì dìmíng)

• Czech: endonymum n
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Esperanto: endonimo
• Estonian: endonüüm
• Finnish: endonyymi (fi)
• French: endonyme (fr) m
• Galician: endónimo m
• Georgian: თვითდასახელება (tvitdasaxeleba), ენდონიმი (endonimi)
• German: Eigenbezeichnung (de) f; Endonym (de) n
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: endonima
• Italian: endonimo (it) m
• Japanese: 内名 (ないめい, naimei), エンドニム (endonimu)
• Persian: نام داخلی (nâm-e dâxeli)
• Polish: endonim (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: endônimo m (Brasil), endónimo m (Portugal)
• Romanian: endonim n
• Russian: эндо́ним (ru) m (endónim), самоназва́ние (ru) n (samonazvánije), автоэтно́ним (ru) m (avtoetnónim)
• Spanish: endónimo (es) m
• Swedish: endonym c, autonym c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: самона́зва f (samonázva), ендо́нім m (endónim)

Further reading

• endonym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia