Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
drbluefall@toast.ooo 3 weeks agoSo I take it that’s why it’s Allemagne?
Comment on What's the rule for which 'national identity adjective' suffix to use?
drbluefall@toast.ooo 3 weeks agoSo 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!