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  2. Ethnonymic surname - Wikipedia

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    Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.

  3. List of nomadic peoples - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of nomadic people arranged by economic specialization and region. Nomadic people are communities who move from one place to another, rather than settling permanently in one location. Many cultures have traditionally been nomadic, but nomadic behavior is increasingly rare in industrialized countries .

  4. List of common nouns derived from ethnic group names

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    Apache A Parisian gangster or thug (from the collective name Apache for several nations of Native Americans). [1]Bohemian A person with an unconventional artistic lifestyle (originally meaning an inhabitant of Bohemia; the secondary meaning may derive from an erroneous idea that the Romani people originate from Bohemia). [2]

  5. Scandinavian family name etymology - Wikipedia

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    The most common Danish family name surnames are patronymic and end in -sen; for example Rasmussen, originally meaning "son of Rasmus" (Rasmus' son).Descendants of Danish or Norwegian immigrants to the United States frequently have similar names ending in the suffix "-sen" or have changed the spelling to "-son".

  6. Onomastics - Wikipedia

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    An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians. Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.

  7. Berbers - Wikipedia

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    [61] [62] [63] The term Amazigh also has a cognate in the Tuareg "Amajegh", meaning noble. [64] [61] "Mazigh" was used as a tribal surname in Roman Mauretania Caesariensis. [62] [65] Abraham Isaac Laredo proposes that the term Amazigh could be derived from "Mezeg", which is the name of Dedan of Sheba in the Targum. [66] [61]

  8. Category:Surnames - Wikipedia

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    Articles in this category are concerned with surnames (last names in Western cultures, but family names in general), especially articles concerned with one surname. Use template {} to populate this category. However, do not use the template on disambiguation pages that contain a list of people by family name.

  9. Nama people - Wikipedia

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    It corresponds to their nomadic life of the past; matjieshuis is still part of the life of the inhabitants of Richtersveld– a region made up of mountainous deserts in the northwest of South Africa. In fact, this is the last place where we can still find them in significant numbers.

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