exonym
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exonym (plural exonyms)
An external name for a place, people or language used by foreigners instead of the native-language version.
Synonym: xenonym
Antonyms: endonym, autonym
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Before initial contact (1650), the English, based on reports from Algonquian natives, thought the three tribes were one people, as the Algonquian speakers referred to them by the exonym Mangoag.
All Turkic peoples living within the Russian Empire were named Tatar (as a Russian exonym ).
Even in the former case, the exclusive use of an exonym may be unhelpful for the map user.
Moscovite chronicles use the exonym Cherkasy to refer both to enemy Cossacks (from Polish, Turk, and Tatar armies) and to Dnieper Cossacks, even when the latter were allied with Moscow.
Skipetar is a historical rendering or exonym of the term Shqiptar by some Western European authors in use from the late 18th century and thereafter.
The name is sometimes said to be derived from an Ojibwe exonym for the Sioux meaning "little snakes" (compare nadowe "big snakes", used for the Iroquois ).