Exonyms
An endonym (from Greek: éndon, 'inner' + ónoma, 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, internal name for a geographical place, group of people, or a language/dialect, that is used only inside that particular place, group, or linguistic community in question; it is their self-designated name for themselves, their homeland, or their language. An exonym (from Greek: éxō, 'outer'; also known as xenonym) is a common, external name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, or a language/dialect, that is used only outside that particular place, group, or linguistic community. Exonyms not only exist for historico-geographical reasons, …
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UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 8 October 2021 English
Grounded in the communities of her home territory, Chantal Fiola brings critical insider knowledge, insight and analysis to the topic of Metis spirituality. The combination of historical background with contemporary …
“Swampy Cree”). Exceptions occur when I reproduce exonyms and the phonetic writing system used in texts …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2018 French
The St Lawrence valley, connecting the Great Lakes to the Atlantic, was a crucible of community in the seventeenth century. While the details of how this region emerged as the …
mountains. The Algonquins are further upriver.”8 Such exonyms – names given by outsiders – derived from the …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 2014 English
When Hudson’s Bay Company surveyor Peter Fidler made contact with the Ktunaxa at the Gap of the Oldman River in the winter of 1792, his Piikáni guides brought him to …
First Nations instead of conventional Anglicized exonyms; the latter are often derived from names for a …
