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To add insult to injury, what they call it, Deutschland, sounds like what we should call Netherlands

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[–] Flubo@feddit.org 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

While it is quite common that countries have different names in other languages, germany is special because it really has a lot of very different names. Alemagne in french, germany in englisch, deutschland in german, tyskland in danish, Niemcy in poland and so on.

There is actually a wikipedia article about it, that also explains the origin of the different names.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Germany

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

in Lithuanian it is Vokietija, of unclear origin, but possibly from Proto-Balto-Slavic *vākyā-, meaning “those who speak loud, shout (unintelligibly)”

DIESE ABSCHEULICHE UNTERSTELLUNG IST VOLLKOMMEN INAKZEPTABEL!

[–] Flubo@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

:D thats funny

[–] LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Saksa in Finnish, no clue what the origin of that is. It doesn't even mean anything that I know of.

[–] chonomaiwokurae@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

Sachsen, germaaninen heimo/Saksin alue nykyisessä Saksassa.

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

The Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes/peoples. So similar in origin to "allemannia" (from the Alemanni tribes) and its variants in many other languages.

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

polish*, also your capitalisation of the name in different languages is totally random

[–] Flubo@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Thats my german keybord autocorrecting some words while i try to write in english. I am too lazy to go through all the mistakes as long as one can get my point.

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not totally random. Consistently wrong, with only "Niemcy" out of line.

I think that means "mute" originally

[–] SchwertImStein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

isn't Alemagne correct? or is it an error to capitalise a country's name in French?

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

Since it's at the beginning of a sentence, it's correct either way :P