Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Also, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.

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  • drbluefall@toast.ooo ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So I take it that’s why it’s Allemagne?

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    • Draghetta@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The German people, as a people, started as the unification of the Germanic tribes. The unified tribe called itself the tribe of all men, Alle Männer in modern German. The history of those times is narrated by romans and Greeks so we have a romanised version of that name, alamanni.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Aha! Hence, the French “Allemand(e)” for “German”.

        TIL. Pretty neat!

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• thelsim@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  When I was a kid our family went on vacation to the US. Everyone kept asking if I was Dutch, which I thought was German (Deutsch).
  So I kept correcting them, saying I was Netherlandisch :)

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  • eatthecake@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Deutsch is Pennsylvania Dutch, which is German

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    • CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If you mean that Pennsylvania Dutch is a dialect of German and that Dutch and Deutsch share a common origin, then that is true.

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