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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats