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Selfname

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Noun

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, [...]"

Etymology

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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