To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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    9 months ago

    While it is quite common that countries have different names in other languages, germany is special because it really has a lot of very different names. Alemagne in french, germany in englisch, deutschland in german, tyskland in danish, Niemcy in poland and so on.

    There is actually a wikipedia article about it, that also explains the origin of the different names.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany

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        9 months ago

        Thats my german keybord autocorrecting some words while i try to write in english. I am too lazy to go through all the mistakes as long as one can get my point.

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      9 months ago

      Saksa in Finnish, no clue what the origin of that is. It doesn’t even mean anything that I know of.

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        The Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes/peoples. So similar in origin to “allemannia” (from the Alemanni tribes) and its variants in many other languages.

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      9 months ago

      in Lithuanian it is Vokietija, of unclear origin, but possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *vākyā-, meaning “those who speak loud, shout (unintelligibly)”

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