ethnonym (W3)
(E?)(L?) https://web.archive.org/web/20160731165244/http://billcasselman.com/unpublished_works/anishinaabe.htm
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An "ethnonym" is the proper name a people or ethnic group call themselves. "Inuit" is an ethnonym; "Eskimo" is not.
The compound word ["ethnonym"] was borrowed into English linguistic and anthropological jargon from Russian. But a Russian linguist coined the word using two Greek roots: "ethnonym" = "ethnos" 'people' + "onoma" 'name'.
Some ancient Greek dialects like Aeolian used the form "onyma", which form was borrowed into Late Latin, thus accounting for the "-onym" spellings listed in the next sentence. Compare words like ethnic and a list of compound English words whose second element is "-onym": "acronym", "synonym", "pseudonym", "patronym", "homonym" and "toponym" (place name). A fuller reflex of that Greek word for name lurks in the botanical term for a familiar garden shrub, "Euonymus", '[plant] of good name'.
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(E1)(L1) http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?corpus=0&content=ethnonym
Abfrage im Google-Corpus mit 15Mio. eingescannter Bücher von 1500 bis heute.
Engl. "ethnonym" taucht in der Literatur um das Jahr 1800 / 1950 auf.
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