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

  • Dicska@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    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.