Monday, July 06, 2020

From Revenant to Demonym

Ever since I began promoting the term "revenant" to replace "settler" back in 2004, and see Tilley's letter here, there were those who could not make the switch.

Revenant means one that returns especially after a long absence, from revenir in the French.

Walter Scott employed it in Ivanhoe published in 1819



We Jews have returned to our historic homeland after an ethnic cleansing operation organized by Arabs under the leadership of the Mufti during the Mandate years of 1920-1948, carried out through a campaign of muderous terror, and then for another 19 years under the illegal occupation of the Hashemite Kingsom of Jordan which illegally occupied and annexed the area.

Well, I have a new one:


demonym


A demonym is a term for people who live in a particular place, a nationality word. It 
defines a person geographically.  As in:


"we are resident demonym Jews of Judea and Samaria"

And no, it is not pronounced with a dee but a deh.

^

4 comments:

Joe in Australia said...

No, "demonym" means "a word used to describe the persons of a particular place". For instance, the demonym for "person from Judea" is "Judean". I don't know what your example sentence even means; it is not good English.

Also, the bit you're quoting from Ivanhoe is in French, not English, which is why it's in italics. A French word in an historical novel written over two hundred years ago is not good evidence for the word's meaning in contemporary English.

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