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Jewish Ethnonym
An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: Exonym and endonym, exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or Exonym and endonym, endonyms (self-designation; where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). This article does not cover List of ethnic slurs, ethnic slurs. List Obsolete Jews were often called (and occasionally called themselves) Palestinians, but after the emergence of Arab Palestinian nationalism and the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the term "Palestinians" came to be used almost exclusively for Palestinian Arabs. (See Definitions of Palestinian) See also * Jew (word) * Person of Jewish ethnicity Footnotes *1 Ioudaios, Yehudi, ''Jewish'', a "Judaean", "from the land of Kingdom of Judah, Yehuda (Judah, Judea)". *2 Ivri, ''Hebrew'', "one who passes over", a reference to the Biblical Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethnonym
An ethnonym () is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (whose name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms, or endonyms (whose name is created and used by the ethnic group itself). As an example, the largest ethnic group in Germany is Germans. The ethnonym ''Germans'' is a Latin-derived exonym used in the English language. Conversely, the Germans call themselves the , an endonym. The German people are identified by a variety of exonyms across Europe, such as (French language, French), (Italian language, Italian), (Swedish language, Swedish) and (Polish language, Polish). As a sub-field of anthroponymy, the study of ethnonyms is called ethnonymy or ethnonymics. Ethnonyms should not be confused with demonyms, distinctive terms that designate all people related to a specific territory, regardless of any ethnic, religious, linguistic or some other distinctions that may exist within the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |