Pronounced: NAH-bee, adj
Notes: I thought I recognized part of this word, but I didn’t know the meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word endonym is “a named used internally to refer to a place, people, language, etc”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1970s
Background / Comments
An example may be useful here: The endonym for Germany is “Deutschland” (because that is what Germans all their country). Our word came from the Greek word endo (inside; within) and -onym (word; name). As I noted yesterday, I recognized a part of our word — the “nym”.
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