Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAlso, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.
Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
xmunk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoAlso, in Deutschland, the descendents of the Alemmani are called Germans for some awful reason.
drbluefall@toast.ooo 3 weeks ago
So I take it that’s why it’s Allemagne?
Draghetta@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Aha! Hence, the French “Allemand(e)” for “German”.
TIL. Pretty neat!