selfname

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A proper name; a name for one's own self, as opposed to one's family; one's real name.
    — Surnames are, with a few exceptions, monosyllabic. Selfnames can be either monosyllabic or bisyllabic.
  2. A name given to oneself; a self-denomination or self-appellation.
    — Mina is the selfname of the language referred to in the literature as Hina or Besleri.
  3. An autonym.
    — In the past, the Ainu (their selfname meaning 'person'), traditionally huntergatherers, occupied not only Hokkaido but also a considerable part of the island of Honshu until the middle the eighteenth century, [...]

词形变化

selfnames plural self-name alternative self name alternative

词源

From self (“own, proper”) + name. The autonym sense is possibly a calque of Ancient Greek αὐτο- (auto-, “self-”) + ὄνομᾰ (ónomă, “name”), which are the ultimate roots of English autonym itself.
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