Germany Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Etymology ==<!--linked--> {{Further|Names of Germany|Germani|Germania}} The English word ''Germany'' derives from the Latin {{lang|la|Germania}}, which came into use after [[Julius Caesar]] adopted it for the peoples east of the [[Rhine]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/germany00hage/page/4 |title=Germany: A New History |last=Schulze |first=Hagen |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-674-80688-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/germany00hage/page/4 4] |author-link=Hagen Schulze}}</ref> The [[German language|German]] term {{lang|de|Deutschland}}, originally {{lang|gmh|diutisciu land}} ('the German lands') is derived from {{wikt-lang|de|deutsch}} ([[cf.]] ''[[wikt:Dutch#English|Dutch]]''), descended from [[Old High German]] {{lang|goh|diutisc}} 'of the people' (from {{lang|goh|diot}} or {{lang|goh|diota}} 'people'), originally used to distinguish the [[Vernacular|language of the common people]] from [[Latin]] and its [[Romance languages|Romance descendants]]. This in turn descends from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] {{lang|gem-x-proto|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þiudiskaz|þiudiskaz]]}} 'of the people' (see also the Latinised form {{lang|la|[[Theodiscus]]}}), derived from {{lang|gem-x-proto|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þeudō|þeudō]]}}, descended from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] *''{{PIE|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tewtéh₂|tewtéh₂-]]}}'' 'people', from which the word ''[[Teutons]]'' also originates.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA523 |title=Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band II |last1=Lloyd |first1=Albert L. |last2=Lühr |first2=Rosemarie |last3=Springer |first3=Otto |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |year=1998 |isbn=978-3-525-20768-0 |pages=699–704 |language=German |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911012455/https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA523 |archivedate=11 September 2015 |url-status=live}} (for {{lang|goh|diutisc}}). {{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=Albert L. |title=Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band II |year=1998 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-20768-0 |pages=685–686|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA516 |last2=Lühr |first2=Rosemarie |last3=Springer |first3=Otto |language=German |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916000730/https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA516 |archivedate=16 September 2015 }} (for {{lang|goh|diot}}).</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page