Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
InfiniteKrebs@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I can tell you that this is called demonym, but I don’t know the amswer to your question… The Wikipedia page has a long list of suffixes, but no rules: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonym
herrvogel@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The answer is that many languages import their demonyms from different foreign languages. The reason for the inconsistencies is the different, unrelated sources for words.