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 ::Dear Codrinb: (1) first of all, I do not get what you mean by ""anachronistic idea"" (in your edit tag). This article should reflect the *current* English usage and it is not relevant what the etymology of a word in the title is. There are thousands of English works using the phrase ""Hungarian tribes"" , so it is crystal clear that this expression is (also) very common in English. Moreover, (2) it would be interesting to hear what confusion could arise from talking about ""Hungarian tribes"" instead of ""Magyar tribes"" (apart from the one you mentioned about the Huns, which sounds highly unlikely to me). It would be especially interesting to me, since I think that the word ""Magyar"" is the one that adds only confusion and leaves the reader in an uneasy condition of feeling he is not completely following what is being written. Finally, (3) could you cite some sources claiming that ""Hungarian tends to denote the modern nation, after the Magyar tribes settled in Pannonia and after the other modern nations started to use the exonym term till it became common."" or is it your own intuition about these words? Cheers,   "