LL-L "Ethnonyms" 2005.11.03 (02) [E]

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03 November 2005 * Volume 02
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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Ethnonyms" 2005.10.31 (07) [E]

Dear Paul:

Subject: LL-L "Ethnonyms"

> The trouble with "bushman" is that a lot of people who live in the bush
> consider themselves to be bushmen, even if they are of pure European
> origin. In Australia, bushmen, or "bushies" were almost by definition
> white; it went without saying that traditional aborigines knew the bush.

Conceded.

By the way, Ron, if that was you, I do like 'ethnonyms'!

Yrs,
Mark

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Ethnonyms

Mark:

> By the way, Ron, if that was you, I do like 'ethnonyms'!

It was I who used "ethnonym," if this is what you're asking about.  But make 
know mistake: I didn't coin the term.  It started being used in English in 
the early 1960s, apparently picked up from Russian этноним _étnonim_, which 
appears to have begun in the late 1930s or early 1940s, obviously made up on 
the basis of Greek έ̓θνος _ethnos_ 'nation' (< 'heathen') and
-ώνυμος  _-ônymos_ '-name'.

Cheers!
Reinhard/Ron

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