Now it's solidified as a name even through the language is a dialect of German. Further south, the Italians call Germans Tedeschi - kind of neat how that root keeps showing up. It even shows up in some last names. Perhaps their many-great grandfather was from a Germanic region. For those of you who want all the fun in-depth details, our expert Stefan will share the full background in our next blog.
We can help. Find out more here. Would you like to share this piece? You have full permission to share as long as you include Pam's bio and this link to sign up and keep in touch with us. Just like with words, names evolve over time. Germany, for example, was called Germany by its inhabitants long before the country was united and began to call itself Deutschland. The geographic central location of Germany in western Europe means that it has historically shared borders with different national and ethnic groups, and many languages use the name of the first Germanic tribe that were located in the area.
An example of this is that the Romans named the land north of the Danube and east of the RhineGermania which has its roots in the first Germanic tribe they heard about from the nearby Gauls. The name was anglicized by the English when they made a small adjustment to the ending of Germany to get Germany. My parents both came to N. It really was a pleasure for them to be American. Excellent answer. It combines and explains what I know of the German, Roman, English, French, Dutch, and Spanish and the words they use for Germans, a linguistic and tribal group, Deutschland, a European country, that contains a lot of Germans.
What a great day.. I met a lovely German guy in my lo al.. Even sone Germans never hit a good answer. Most just look at me lije I was crazy. Thank you! My quest is over. Improve this answer. Your supposition about Tyskland is correct.
In short, with different emphasis: Germany was very late to become a nation. Unlike most other big European nations, it lacked most criteria for a nation before the period of nation building caused by the French revolution Deutsch was just a common language and until about the middth century it wasn't even that. It was a continuum of dialects. HansAdler: Just about the continuum of dialects: This continuum still exists.
For most German native speakers Standard German is some kind of foreign language, because most of them do not learn Standard German as their first language, but a dialect. Take me as example: I learned the dialect spoken in the south-east region of Steiermark.
Yes, of course the continuum of dialects still exists. But it received a supraregional written standard, and that makes a big difference because such a standard has a huge influence on the dialects in a continuum. We tend to notice how English is affecting German at the moment; the influence of standard German on the dialects is much greater.
It doesn't just make it possible for people from Flensburg and people from Steiermark to communicate without effort using a common almost-foreign language. It also makes their dialects converge, or at least diverge slower. Add a comment. Community Bot 1. Tom Au Tom Au Without having done research on this, I'm quite sure that "Deutschland, deutsch" comes from the people of "Teutonen". I "sort of" knew that, but "sort of" isn't the same as actually knowing.
The similarity of deutsch and Teutonen is compelling but accidental. Deutsch started as a Germanic word for the 'popular languages', i. The Teutons were just one of many Germanic-speaking tribes that slowly developed a common dialect continuum, and much later a common standard language and a national identity. But the wide-spread assumption of an etymological connection has left some real traces in German and even more in English, similar to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You speculate about things that you could easily have looked up. Show 2 more comments. This does not answer the question, and the information is already contained in one of the answers; maybe with less detail, but then this could have been a comment, or possibly an edit, there. Evgeny Nikitin Evgeny Nikitin 41 2 2 bronze badges.
Germany itself had many names in its history and its own language. I think the answer can be given very briefly: As initially there was no such thing as "the Germans" but the area was inhabited by various tribes with different names, and their respective neighbours used either those names or names they made up for them as the Slavonic "nemec" for "not speaking", meaning: "not speaking our language" , and a nation state comprising most of them was created late, it is quite logical that there are different names around.
Christian Geiselmann Christian Geiselmann Xeoff Baloch Xeoff Baloch 2 2 gold badges 6 6 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Most of your names are simply local variations sharing the same root.
Turquie, Turchia, Turkye and Torke simply reflect the different pronunciation in different languages. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.
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