An ethnonym (from Ancient Greek ἔθνος (éthnos) 'nation' and ὄνομα (ónoma) 'name') is a name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided...

ethnonym (and autonym), Slavs, is reconstructed in Proto-Slavic as *Slověninъ, plural Slověně. The earliest written references to the Slav ethnonym are...

group of the Turkic language family. As of the early 21st century, this ethnonym is still used by the Turkmens of Central Asia, the main population of Turkmenistan...

appended to words to create a masculine noun, for instance also found in the ethnonym of Poles (Polak) and Slovaks (Slovák). As such, "Bosniak" is etymologically...

Ethnonyms of the Ingush are names of Ingush people, including self-names (endonyms) and names used by other ethnic groups to refer to the Ingush (exonyms)...

Italians (Italian: italiani, pronounced [itaˈljaːni]) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region. Italians share a common culture, history...

The ethnonym Afghan (Dari Persian/Pashto: افغان) has been used historically to refer to the Pashtuns. Since the second half of the twentieth century, the...

The name Finn is an ethnonym that in ancient times usually referred to the Sámi peoples, but now refers almost exclusively to the Finns. The probable cognates...

Wends (Old English: Winedas [ˈwi.ne.dɑs]; Old Norse: Vindar; German: Wenden [ˈvɛn.dn̩], Winden [ˈvɪn.dn̩]; Danish: Vendere; Swedish: Vender; Polish: Wendowie...

An ethnonym is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has...

(Molise), Romania (Carașova, Lupac) and Serbia (Vojvodina). The foreign ethnonym variation "Croats" of the native name "Hrvati" derives from Medieval Latin...

One of the ethnonyms of the Ingush and Chechens...

territorially defined groups of people, demonyms are semantically different from ethnonyms (names of ethnic groups). In the English language, there are many polysemic...

Prečani (Serbian Cyrillic: Пречани) was a Serbian blanket term used at the end of the 19th- and early 20th century for ethnic Serb communities located...

Montenegrins (Montenegrin: Црногорци, romanized: Crnogorci, lit. 'People of the Black Mountain', pronounced [tsr̩nǒɡoːrtsi] or [tsr̩noɡǒːrtsi]) are a South...

Khas peoples or Khas Tribes, (English: /kɑːs/; Nepali: खस) popularly known as Khashya are an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group native to the Himalayan...

Rascians (Serbian: Раши, Рашани / Raši, Rašani; Latin: Rasciani, Natio Rasciana) was a historical term for Serbs. The term was derived from the Latinized...

"Šahíyena" is the basis for the name "Cheyenne." Algonquin ethnonyms Nipissing ethnonyms Potawatomi ethnonyms Multilingual Dictionary for Multifaith and Multicultural...

Stefan Schumacher presents a slightly different account: he says that the ethnonym Galli (nominative singular *Gallos) is from the present stem of the verb...

meaning as did in Old Iranian, i.e. denoting the genitive case of the ethnonym rather than a proper toponym. The expression "king of kings of the Aryans"...

Autonomous County, China. According to Ochir, ethnonym Gorlos has a common origin with another Mongolian ethnonym Khori. The Gorlos Mongols represents one...

Wa is the oldest attested name of Japan and ethnonym of the Japanese people. From c. the 2nd century AD Chinese and Korean scribes used the Chinese character...

Cheveux. — Jesuit Relations: 1671, 35, 1858. Algonquin ethnonyms Ojibwa ethnonyms Potawatomi ethnonyms J. Mooney and C. Thomas. "Nipissing" in Handbook of...

Russians (Russian: русские, romanized: russkiye [ˈruskʲɪje] ) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian...

alternate forms comprise Khoróatos and Khoroúathos). The origin of the ethnonym is uncertain, but most probably is from Proto-Ossetian / Alanian *xurvæt-...

known as Little Russians, named after the territory of Little Russia. The ethnonym Ukrainian (a term associated with the Cossack Hetmanate) was adopted following...

the early 19th century the word Biscayne (= Biscayan) was a demonym and ethnonym referring somewhat ambiguously to the Basque Country (usually excluding...

Turkmen, Türkmen, Turkoman, or Turkman may refer to: Turkoman (ethnonym), ethnonym used for the Oghuz Turks during the Middle Ages Turkmen in Anatolia...

variation of Waabanakii(g) — Easterner(s). Nipissing ethnonyms Ojibwa ethnonyms Potawatomi ethnonyms Campbell (1997:401 n. 133, 136) Bright, William (2004)...

khanate in the 15th century. There are several theories on the origin of ethnonym Kyrgyz. It is often said to be derived from the Turkic word kyrk ("forty")...