autonym

[Lynne Murphy]

The term I'm more familiar with is 'auto-ethnonym'.  Only 610 google hits
versus the 37,000 or so for 'autonym', but a lot of the 'autonym' ones mean
something else...

Lynne

--On Friday, May 8, 2009 13:05 -0400 "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
wrote:

> At 5/8/2009 12:21 PM, Mark Mandel wrote:
>> AHD 4th edn
>> http://www.bartleby.com/61/87/A0538750.html
>> A name by which a people or social group refers to itself.
>
> Thanks.  This definition seems useful -- e.g., for talking about how
> "people of color" refer, and used to refer, to themselves.
>
> Joel



Dr M Lynne Murphy
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