Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germanymessage-squaremessage-square186fedilinkarrow-up1247arrow-down143file-text
arrow-up1204arrow-down1message-squareI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in GermanyGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square186fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoWhere does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoAFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-21 month agoIt comes from from french and originally from latin alamanus. There was a germanic tribe there called the the Alamanni.
Where does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?
AFAIK French has something similar. I might be wrong, but similarly to the Holland/Netherlands (Nederlanden) story, it was named after one of the tribes in Germany (alamanni, “all men”), before the great unification.
It comes from from french and originally from latin alamanus. There was a germanic tribe there called the the Alamanni.