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An endonym /'endənɪm/ (also known as autonym /ˈɔːtənɪm/) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language, or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their place of origin, or their language.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.
The word endemic is from Neo-Latin endēmicus, from Greek ἔνδημος, éndēmos, "native". Endēmos is formed of en meaning "in", and dēmos meaning "the people". [5] The word entered the English language as a loan word from French endémique, and originally seems to have been used in the sense of diseases that occur at a constant amount in a country, as opposed to epidemic diseases ...
Official or native language(s) (alphabet/script) Afghanistan: Kabul: Afġānistān افغانستان: Kabul كابل: Pashto/Dari (Arabic script) Albania: Tirana: Shqipëria: Tirana: Albanian: Algeria: Algiers: Dzayer ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Al-Jazā'ir الجزائر: Dzayer ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ Al-Jazā'ir الجزائر: Berber language (Tifinagh ...
In particular, the use of Latinate words in the sciences gives us pairs with a native Germanic noun and a Latinate (or Ancient Greek-derived) adjective: . animals: ant/formic, ape/simian, bear/ursine, bee/apian, bird/avian, butterfly/papilionaceous, carp/cyprine, cat/feline, chicken/gallinaceous, cod/gadoid, cow/bovine, crow/corvine, deer/cervine, dog/canine, duck/anatine, fish/piscine, fox ...
Xenophilia or xenophily is the love for, attraction to, or appreciation of foreign people, manners, customs, or cultures. [1] It is the antonym of xenophobia or xenophoby. The word is a modern coinage from the Greek "xenos" (ξένος) (stranger, unknown, foreign) and "philia" (φιλία) (love, attraction), though the word itself is not found in classical Greek.
Native language, the language(s) a person has learned from birth; Native metal, any metal that is found in its metallic form, either pure or as an alloy, in nature; Native species, a species whose presence in a region is the result of only natural processes; List of Australian plants termed "native", whose common name is of the form "native . . ."