Collective name
Collective names are names that designate diverse groups of people. These include ethnonyms , local residents name, family and clan names .
Ethnonyms (from ancient Greek: ἔθνος ethnos , "people") are peoples and tribal names, although there are of course differences between the names of other people and their own. A people is often not called what it calls itself by others. The ancient Greeks z. B. named non-Greek peoples such as B. the Persians " βαρβαροι " (barbarians), which translated means "the foreigners", whereas they called themselves "Persians" (after the Persis region).
Often peoples receive a collective nickname , technically ethnophaulism , which is also used teasingly. The expression Piefke used by the Austrians is derived from the Slavic term for "beer"; at first he named only the Prussians, later all Germans. These nicknames are often derived from names, dialect features or (ancestral) places typical of the people.
The family name can also be classified under the category of collective names, since it denotes a (mostly small) group of people, although it often has the function of an individual name .