Associations to the word «Exonym»

Wiktionary

EXONYM, noun. A place name or a personal name used by foreigners instead of the native-language version used by its inhabitants, such as Moscow in English for the city called Moskva in Russian, or such as Charles in English for historical people called Karl or Carl in their Germanic languages.
EXONYM, noun. A name given to a group or category of people by a secondary person or persons other than the people it refers to.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle