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Interesting, I always knew the word exonym as xenonym. It turns out xenonym is a synonym of exonym. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenonym https://en.wiktiona
by MikeDelta 4y ago
Interesting, I always knew the word exonym as xenonym.
It turns out xenonym is a synonym of exonym.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenonym https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xenonym
- tzot 4y agoWell, exo- means “outside” and xeno- means “foreign/alien”, so they both convey the same meaning. In any case, exo- is the opposite of endo- (inside) and auto- (self) could be perceived as the opposite of xeno-, so I would pair the antonyms as: endonym/exonym and autonym/xenonym.