ethnogenesisn.
/ˌɛθnə(ʊ)ˈdʒɛnᵻsɪs/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˈdʒɛnəsəs/, /ˌɛθnəˈdʒɛnəsəs/ The formation or emergence of a new nation or a distinct ethnic group within a larger community.
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1862 H. Timrod in Charleston Daily Courier 31 Jan. (title) Ethnogenesis. Written at the time of the Meeting of the Southern Congress at Montgomery, February 1861.
1894 Amer. Antiquarian 16 115 In this publication are treated problems of phonetics, morphology of language.., of ethnogenesis, phytogenesis, anthropogenesis.
1962 L. Singer in Social Res. 29 423 Following Emancipation, the group-forming process moved with much greater speed and intensity than before. I propose that this formative process be referred to as ‘ethnogenesis’, meaning by this term the process whereby a people, that is an ethnic group, comes into existence.
1965 G. Wheeler Mod. Hist. Soviet Central Asia i. 8 They have traced the ethnogenesis of each people much farther back.
2003 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 7 Mar. 30 Anthony Harding looks at Europe from the perspective of ethnogenesis, taking the Celts as his exemplar and noting the continuing debate about when Indo-European speakers arrived.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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