politonym
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editpolitonym (plural politonyms)
- A name referring to members of a political entity.
- 2008, Mohammad Jahangeer Warsi, Linguistic Dynamism in South Asia, page 239:
- In that case Belgians and French provide us with examples of one's politonyms. His theory becomes more complex when he says: when a group of people move outside the original settlement, both politonyms and toponyms are often not retained by the second and further generations.