# Nationalities not ending in "ese," "ish" or "an" (ex. Savoyard) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 27, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939 "2009-08-27T18:46:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Desert\_Nomad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desert_nomad/32/177_2.png) [@Desert\_Nomad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desert_Nomad)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/21 "2009-08-27T20:22:00Z")
Emirati (UAE) ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/22 "2009-08-27T20:27:55Z")
Blackfoot Pawnee Cheyenne Crow Apache Arapahoe ---
**Author:** ![Rhodes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhodes/32/273_2.png) [@Rhodes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhodes)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/23 "2009-08-27T20:37:48Z")
Maori Eskimo Inuit Cherokee Navajo Aztec Utard And it looks like the OP needs to be amended, since I’d say there are more nationalities (or demonyms) ending with -i than with -ese, plus -er is pretty common. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/24 "2009-08-27T20:46:13Z")
Nevermind ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/25 "2009-08-27T20:47:03Z")
**Official US State demonyms** : Nutmegger (Connecticut) Hoosier (Indiana) Down Easter (Maine) Marylander New Yorker Wisconsinite Wyomingite ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/26 "2009-08-27T23:10:25Z")
> [@Desert\_Nomad](#): > > Emirati (UAE) Hadn’t run into that one. Why does it remind me of Illuminati? 😃 Some more demonyms: Azeri (already mentioned by the alternate of Azerbaijani) Catalan Chuvash Czech Finn (=Suomi) Galego (=Gallego) Gheg Kirundi Kurd Kyrgyz Lapp (or Saami, if you prefer) Mordvin Nepali Permyak Pict Pilipino (= Filipino) Qaraqalpaq Tajik (Tadzhik) Tatar Tosk Uighur Uzbek Vlach Not Acceptable, under the OP: Slovak = Slovakian Magyar = Hungarian Sard = Sardinian ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/27 "2009-08-27T23:11:29Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > Nevermind A denizen of Nirvana? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/28 "2009-08-27T23:29:17Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > New Zealanders Non-standard. The standard form is “Kiwi.” 😛 Chechen? Breton? They do have “-n” tho’ not “-ian” or “-an.” Lao (also Laotian I guess) Swede & Finn are noun stems of Swedish & Finnish. Pole (archaically Polack, which is interesting) is a noun stem for Polish. Of course there are lots of “-i” forms from the Middle East. > [@The\_Great\_Philosopher](#): > > Seychellois Also Quebecois, or Quebecker, (but not Quebecquese, Quebecan, Quebecki, nor Quebesche). ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/29 "2009-08-27T23:29:59Z")
“-i” seems to be so common (Iraq - Iraqi, Nepal - Nepali) that we should just add it to the OP as one of the standard identifiers. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/30 "2009-08-27T23:34:23Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Non-standard. The standard form is “Kiwi.” 😛 _snarf_ Dane? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/31 "2009-08-28T00:50:25Z")
> [@Randy\_Seltzer](#): > > **Official US State demonyms** : > Nutmegger (Connecticut) > Hoosier (Indiana) > Down Easter (Maine) > Marylander > New Yorker > Wisconsinite > Wyomingite Oh, jeez, there are a lot of 'em: Buckeye (Ohio) Hoopie (not official, but West Virginia) Keystone Stater (Pennsylvania) Washingtonian (Washington State) Peach (Georgia) ---
**Author:** ![I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19adc/32.png) [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/32 "2009-08-28T01:05:31Z")
Roma, or Romany (Gypsies) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/33 "2009-08-28T01:13:59Z")
Are there any nationalities ending in “gry”? (sorry…couldn’t help myself :p) ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/34 "2009-08-28T01:30:30Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Pole (archaically Polack, which is interesting) is a noun stem for Polish. It’s curious that in America “Polack” is almost an insult, but the Polish word for a Pole is “Polak” ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/35 "2009-08-28T01:42:06Z")
I’m [Adyghe](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyghe_people). ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/36 "2009-08-28T02:14:41Z")
Lett = An inhabitant of Latvia. As in “Lithuanians and Letts do it” (Cole Porter). ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/37 "2009-08-28T02:33:26Z")
> [@foolsguinea](#): > > Non-standard. The standard form is “Kiwi.” 😛 Wouldn’t that be someone from the obscure Southwest Asian nation of Kiw? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Apollon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47774/32.png) [@Apollon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollon)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/38 "2009-08-28T08:41:45Z")
Saxon. ---
**Author:** ![Polly\_Glot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9de053/32.png) [@Polly\_Glot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polly_Glot)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/39 "2009-08-28T12:27:25Z")
Spaniard! ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939/40 "2009-08-28T13:20:57Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > Finn (=Suomi) Suomi means Finland, Finn would be suomalainen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nationalities-not-ending-in-ese-ish-or-an-ex-savoyard/507939.md?page=3)