... WORDS ABOUT WORDS II 157 The counterpart of exonym is endonym, the name used by the locals Can you guess ... be looking for it —H E N RY D AV I D T H O R E AU , naturalist and author (1817–1862) WORDS ABOUT WORDS II 159 And in the New World I was thinking how obscure and esoteric a word teknonym was ... landscapes The English language has borrowed words from many of Africa’s languages: trek, aardvark, impala, gnu, okra to name a few In this chapter we’ll see words that originate in African languages...