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 #2 (permalink) Sun Nov 12, 2006 17:49 pm Demonym |
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| A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. Often the name of a people's language is the same as this word, e.g., the "French" (language or people). Some places, particularly smaller cities and towns may not have an established word for their residents; toponymists have a particular challenge in researching these. See also ethnonym. |
From: Demonym @ Wikipedia (there are also examples of demonyms in English on that page)
I recently had dealings with demonyms as can be seen in a thread from a couple of days ago. :)
For definitions of other -onyms and generally types of words see Category:Types of words@Wikipedia
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| #3 (permalink) Sun Nov 12, 2006 20:09 pm Demonym |
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Hi, and thanks a lot.
I see now. It means - name of a person of an ethnic group (from Gr. demos "people"). I was aware of others (like ethnonym, toponym etc.) but this. Thank you for providing the site, also. It's very informative. |
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