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Sorry, Deutsch people (discuss.tchncs.de)

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[–] bolditalicroman 224 points 1 month ago (26 children)

For anyone wondering, Deutschland, Duitsland and Tyskland all have the same latin root "theodiscus" that became "deutsch". "Allemagne" derives from a germanic tribe, the "Alemanni" who lived in modern day Germany and bordered modern day france. Niemcy and Nemetorszag both stem from old slavic "nem" (or something similar) meaning "mute". They called the Germanic tribes they interacted with mute because they couldn't understand them. "Saksa" is derived from the German region "Saxony".

Please correct me in case i got something wrong.

[–] modeler 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just to add one more sidenote: France is of course named after the Franks, a German people who lived next door to the Alemanni and the Saxons.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Still do, Franken is on the one hand a part of Bavaria very insistent on not actually being Bavarian (and they're right), OTOH a dialect continuum reaching over the Ruhr area up to Flanders and Holland.

Charlemagne was a prince of Austrasia, just another guy in a long dynasty of conquerors but notably the one to conquer Rome (and conversion-by-genocide of the Saxons). Also a lot more Gauls back in the day in France before they went all national state and suppressed minority languages in favour of sounding more Roman.

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