Re: Gladbach striker Neuville saves Germany!

Calimero wrote:
David White wrote:
OT - Why does most of the world call Deutschland 'Germany', and why
do Germans, er Deutschlanders, put up with it?

David

Because "Germany" is English für "Deutschland".

This didn't make sense to me at first. By what means can a country's name be translated
into English? But it seems that "Germany" has an old and complicated history. This was in
an etymology dictionary:
- "Teuton," 1530, from L. Germanus, first attested in writings of Julius Caesar, who used
Germani to designate a group of tribes in northeastern Gaul, origin unknown, probably the
name of an individual tribe. It is perhaps of Gaulish (Celtic) origin, perhaps originally
meaning "noisy" (cf. O.Ir. garim "to shout") or "neighbor" (cf. O.Ir. gair "neighbor").
The earlier Eng. word was Almain or Dutch. Their name for themselves was the root word of
modern Ger. Deutsch (see Dutch). Roman writers also used Teutoni as a German tribal name,
and Latin writers after about 875 commonly refer to the German language as teutonicus. See
also Alemanni. The German shepherd (dog) (1922) translates Ger. deutscher Schäferhund

David


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