Names of Germany
There are numerous widely varying names of Germany in different languages, more so than for an other European nation. For example: the German language endonym is Deutschland, from the Old High German diutisc, meaning "of the people"; the French exonym is Allemagne, from the name of the Alamanni tribe; in Italian it is Germania, from the Latin Germania, although the German people are called tedeschi, which is cognate with German Deutsch; in Polish it is Niemcy, from the Proto-Slavic *němьcь, meaning speechless, since German is not mutually intelligible with Slavic languages; in Finnish it is Saksa, from the name of the Saxon tribe; in Lithuanian it is Vokietija, of unclear origin, but possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *vākyā-, meaning “those who speak loud, shout (unintelligibly)”. Often language lags behind the changing society and names tend to retain references to first encounters: the Finnish first and foremost met the Saxons while the French faced the Alamanni. Comparable tendencies...
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