Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agoI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in Germanymessage-squaremessage-square225fedilinkarrow-up1283arrow-down144file-text
arrow-up1239arrow-down1message-squareI felt so betrayed when I found out Germany isn't called Germany in GermanyGrandwolf319@sh.itjust.works to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square225fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 days agoWhere does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?
minus-squareteft@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-26 days agoIt comes from from french and originally from latin alamanus. There was a germanic tribe there called the the Alamanni.
minus-squareDicska@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·6 days 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.
Where does “Alemania” (what they call Germany in Spain) come from?
It comes from from french and originally from latin alamanus. There was a germanic tribe there called the the Alamanni.
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.