- 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...
- The
ethnonym Afghan (Dari Persian/Pashto: افغان) has been used
historically to
refer to the Pashtuns.
Since the
second half of the
twentieth century, the...
- "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...
-
settlement of Arbanaško,
itself derived from
Arbanas (an old
South Slavic ethonym for Albanians), is in present-day
Sveti Nikole,
suggesting either direct...
- N'Ko scripts. Historically,
Dyula ("jula" in the language) was not an
ethonym, but
rather a
Manding language label literally meaning 'trader'. The term...
- tablets'
personal names with
Croatian ethonyms. In 1911,
Konstantin Josef Jireček was the
first to
consider these ethonyms to be of
Iranian origin. Some scholars...
-
contains no punctuation, so
different scholars read and
reconstruct the
ethonyms differently. The
Tiele were a
large tribal group,
however it is unlikely...
-
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...
-
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...
-
horses of the Qibi and Göktürks
south of the Gobi Desert.
Reading the
ethonym 𐰋𐰇𐰚𐰲𐰃:𐰲𐰇𐰠𐰏𐰠 as Bükli-Çöl-Igil,
Kenzheakhmet further links the...
