German ethnonyms

John Myhill john at research.haifa.ac.il
Thu Dec 11 10:05:16 UTC 2003


Does anyone out there have any idea of why there are so many
different words meaning `German' in different languages? Aside
from English German, there's German Deutsche, Spanish alleman, Italian
tedesco, and Russian nemyetski?
Also, does anyone know others?
Thanks, John Myhill
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