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Yet another theory is that the word comes from ger, "spear"; however, Eric Partridge suggests *gar / gavin, to shout (as Old Irish garim), describing the Germanic tribesmen as noisy. He describes the ger theory as "obsolete". In English, the word "German" is first attested in 1520, replacing earlier uses of Almain, Alman and Dutch.
English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; ... Allemagne is the French name for Germany. It may also refer to: Communes in ...
The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. [13] The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands'), is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of ...
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
The French-language name of Germany, Allemagne, is derived from their name, from Old French aleman(t), [5] and from French was loaned into a number of other languages, including Middle English, which commonly used the term Almains for Germans.
The Krupp-Works in Essen, 1864 Many companies, such as steam-machine producer J. Kemna, modeled themselves on English industry. In 1800, Germany's social structure was poorly suited to entrepreneurship or economic development.
Defending champion and No. 1 seed Jannik Sinner easily dispatches host country's last hope; Ben Shelton takes on-court interviewers to task.
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...