- published: 12 Apr 2015
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Demonym (/ˈdɛmənɪm/; δῆμος dẽmos 'people, tribe', ὄνομα ónoma 'name') is a word to identify residents or natives of a particular place, which is derived from the name of that particular place. It is a recently minted term; previously, gentilic was used by the Oxford English Dictionary. Examples of demonyms include Chinese for the natives of China, Swahili for the natives of the Swahili coast, and American for the natives of the United States of America (or sometimes for the natives of the Americas). Just as Americans may refer to two different groups of natives, some particular groups of people may be referred to by multiple demonyms. For example, the natives of the United Kingdom are the British, or the Britons. In English, demonyms are capitalized. In languages other than English, a parallel demonym sometimes does not exist, which may lead to the use of an English demonym as a nickname or descriptive adjective of a group of people. The term has not been adopted by the Oxford English Dictionary or the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Today my soul is open for every wandering ghost
Come in!
Let's start the celebration
They're hiding inside me
When your eyes are blind
I'm the gale who can knock
At your door
Sometimes, I hear torment souls
Whistling around me
I've heard voices in various ancient languages
They're talking... and they're whispering
They want to shelter from someone or something
Dreadful power
I want to escape from from this hell on earth
Help me!
I'm afraid of my dreams
I feel that I'm loosing in this labyrinth of shadows
They knew that we would blossom like
Spring flowers... someday, somewhere
Soon
Before I die
Between life and death
I'll cast the shadow
And now I'm clenching my teeth in a vortex
I've dug my hideout
I closed all the doors
And swallowed all the keys