Meaning of exonymy | Babel Free

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

uncountable

Examples

“Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Brazil/Paris) analysed the comparative relation between exonymy and endonymy in lowland South America.”

“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."”

“First it will examine⟳ the etymologies of the various groups as products of Egyptian nomenclature (exonymy) or indigenous nomenclature (endonymy).”

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