- An
ethnonym (from
Ancient Gr**** ἔθνος (éthnos) 'nation' and ὄνομα (ónoma) 'name') is a name
applied to a
given ethnic group.
Ethnonyms can be
divided into...
-
Caucahue is an
ethonym used by
Chonos and the ****lliche and
Spanish of Chiloé for a
group of canoe-faring
people that
inhabited the
archipelagoes south...
- N'Ko scripts. Historically,
Dyula ("jula" in the language) was not an
ethonym, but
rather a
Manding language label literally meaning 'trader'. The term...
- "non-Roman", may have
contributed to the
preservation of this word as an
ethonym of the
Romanian people,
under the
meaning of "Christian". To distinguish...
- "nomads whom
common people call Vlachs") he
concludes that the
Vlach ethonym was used to
designate not just the Romanians, but all
transhumance po****tions...
-
Cornwall and Brittany, in the past). yet the term Celtae/Galatae was an
ethonym of the
Gallic peoples according to Gr****s and Romans, whom
shared a common...
-
Point and
originally meant the
headland (ros) of the Fortriu, a
local ethonym.
Compare the
etymology of
Montrose in Angus. The
locals pronounce the name...
-
ethnonym *b.rak ~ *p.rak
underlies *prɔːk,
ethnonym of the Wa people, *rɔːk,
ethonym of a Khmu subgroup, and
possibly the
ethnonym of Bai
people (白族 Báizú)...
-
interpreted by
scholars as
anthroponyms of the
Croatian ethnonym Hrvat. This
ethonym is
generally considered to be of
Iranian origin, and can be
traced to the...
- pl. Lebër, are
endonyms formed from the root *arb/*alb (cf. the
ancient ethonym Αλβανοί,
Albanoi by Ptolemy, and Αλβανοί, Αρβανίται in
Byzantine sources)...
