It’s mostly the non-Germanics that have to fuck it up again.
In Italian Germany is germania but german is tedesco, because in Italian German are ancient roman era barbarian
When you cause as much shit in your local area as you have, people might not respect your pronouns
logical reason: “Deutschland” is not one group of people – Germanic was a collection of tribes that have the same language roots. They are not one nation but a multiple tribes who hate each other, but hate the rest of the world more because the other tribes atleast speak German (kind of). The history of Germany was never a united one, and so are the roots of the names for Germany. For example Alemania comes from the Alemans, Saksa froms the Saxons and Tyskland from the Teutons.
The only exception is Niemcy – which just means “silent” in polish.
Niemcy = polish/slav. for mute/silent (since they didint speak a slavic languange, and thus stayed silent in conversation), alternative could be from Nemetes a Rhine based tribe.
German = the Germanic tribes = Old German for Spearman. (ger = spear)
Deutsch/-land = Teutsch = from old German *Diutisc* menaing “of the people”
Tyskland = same just Swedish-germanic spelling
Alemania = Name of a Germanic tribe named Alemanni in south west Germany (Swabian, Baden) and Switzerland settling there from 400CE onward. Comming from the south west these would have been the first Germanic tribes you’d meet. (same goes for other Latin based languanges like French: Allemagne), Allemanni as many Germanic based languages imply ment “all men”.
Saksa (finnish) = Name of Germanic tribe of the Saxons. Which lived at the cost and north German territories.
There still are three Bundesländer named after them: Sachsen, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt.
The Angel-Saxons went from Denmark to the Britisch iles, becoming the Anglo-saxons or Anglish, later English.
Nemetorszag = same as polish/slavic but as a loan word. here the possibility to be from Nemetes is higher.
vokietija = Lithuanian for “central/middle country (in Europe)”
The thing is most of these terms are older than the other countries in the meme. Hence people kept the old names for the general region even after new countries were founded.
France could only become France after the Carolingian/Frankish rule of Charlemagne/Carolus magnus/Carl the Great begining of the 8th century.
Norway was coined in ~880CE. by Old English/Anglish: Norþweg meaning the northern way/way to the north as the West-Scandinavian coastline was called.
This is basic history. What do you all learn in school these days? /s
My favourite is “Ale Mania” which perfectly sums them up
Ok, Lithuanians are my new favorite people for the week. Look how cute they spell our country name !
Yay return of the rage comics! 🤩 more of these please
A’ Ghearmalt and Nirribhidh are Scottish Gaelic too.
It’s because it’s in the middle, by the borders of many language groups; North Germanic, Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Finno-ugric, and itself consisted of many different tribes. It is no wonder this region, later nation, has gotten many names.
On the contrary, Norway has been rather remote and been able to project its own native name onto any visiting people.
You did forget Gallia (Greek) for France ;).
You’re welcome.
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The name for Germany is “Get those fuckers out of my land” in the local language except in German, where it means “Land of the thousand regulations”
Saksa is correct.
Fek u Suomi, I’m not a Saxon
Not sure which one’s worse. Germany in different languages or different countries’ names in Finnish.
https://preview.redd.it/8cn6m5mvp3kc1.jpeg?width=1124&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c659393da8e6cfcdbe1b8455631959e15e133043
Because Germany is a modern construct.
“Alemania” comes from a group of Germanic tribes, the Allemannen (all the men)
That’s right, we should unify the name for Germany, by expanding our language through the means of military conquest
All just different names for the one true meaning: Dutchland.
It’s always been ours.
Isn’t it because Germany is so new it didn’t exist
List of etymologies
**Alemannia:** Ceasar/The Romans named the Germanics partially after the Alemanni, a tribe from south Germany
**Tyskland/tedesko etc:** Comes from the Teutons tribe / Teuton. Deutsch evolved from Teutsch
**Niemcy:** Disputed couled also come from the Nemetes
**Saksa:** Saxons
**Germany/Germania:** Germanics/the name of the regions by the Romans
Niemcy – in many slavic languages means numb, thus they don’t speak. I assume they at the time Germans didn’t bother to learn local languages
Hasn’t Germany changed its own name a lot of times themselves?!
It’s your own fault Hans!
You mean “Allemagne”, right ?
Italy: «You are *Germania*, but you people are *tedeschi*, because yes».
Because Germany isn’t a real country
[Which Germany?](https://img.welt.de/img/kultur/history/mobile102161864/0761628447-ci23x11-w1136/Opi-Flickenteppich-DW-Kultur-Berlin-jpg.jpg)
Well tbf, everyone says Germany differently
It’s mostly the non-Germanics that have to fuck it up again.
In Italian Germany is germania but german is tedesco, because in Italian German are ancient roman era barbarian
When you cause as much shit in your local area as you have, people might not respect your pronouns
logical reason: “Deutschland” is not one group of people – Germanic was a collection of tribes that have the same language roots. They are not one nation but a multiple tribes who hate each other, but hate the rest of the world more because the other tribes atleast speak German (kind of). The history of Germany was never a united one, and so are the roots of the names for Germany. For example Alemania comes from the Alemans, Saksa froms the Saxons and Tyskland from the Teutons.
The only exception is Niemcy – which just means “silent” in polish.
Niemcy = polish/slav. for mute/silent (since they didint speak a slavic languange, and thus stayed silent in conversation), alternative could be from Nemetes a Rhine based tribe.
German = the Germanic tribes = Old German for Spearman. (ger = spear)
Deutsch/-land = Teutsch = from old German *Diutisc* menaing “of the people”
Tyskland = same just Swedish-germanic spelling
Alemania = Name of a Germanic tribe named Alemanni in south west Germany (Swabian, Baden) and Switzerland settling there from 400CE onward. Comming from the south west these would have been the first Germanic tribes you’d meet. (same goes for other Latin based languanges like French: Allemagne), Allemanni as many Germanic based languages imply ment “all men”.
Saksa (finnish) = Name of Germanic tribe of the Saxons. Which lived at the cost and north German territories.
There still are three Bundesländer named after them: Sachsen, Niedersachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt.
The Angel-Saxons went from Denmark to the Britisch iles, becoming the Anglo-saxons or Anglish, later English.
Nemetorszag = same as polish/slavic but as a loan word. here the possibility to be from Nemetes is higher.
vokietija = Lithuanian for “central/middle country (in Europe)”
The thing is most of these terms are older than the other countries in the meme. Hence people kept the old names for the general region even after new countries were founded.
France could only become France after the Carolingian/Frankish rule of Charlemagne/Carolus magnus/Carl the Great begining of the 8th century.
Norway was coined in ~880CE. by Old English/Anglish: Norþweg meaning the northern way/way to the north as the West-Scandinavian coastline was called.
This is basic history. What do you all learn in school these days? /s
My favourite is “Ale Mania” which perfectly sums them up
Ok, Lithuanians are my new favorite people for the week. Look how cute they spell our country name !
Yay return of the rage comics! 🤩 more of these please
A’ Ghearmalt and Nirribhidh are Scottish Gaelic too.
It’s because it’s in the middle, by the borders of many language groups; North Germanic, Latin, Slavic, Germanic, Finno-ugric, and itself consisted of many different tribes. It is no wonder this region, later nation, has gotten many names.
On the contrary, Norway has been rather remote and been able to project its own native name onto any visiting people.
You did forget Gallia (Greek) for France ;).
You’re welcome.
Portugal: