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

  • LNRDrone@sopuli.xyz
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    5 days ago

    Saksa in Finnish, no clue what the origin of that is. It doesn’t even mean anything that I know of.

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      The Saxons were a group of Germanic tribes/peoples. So similar in origin to “allemannia” (from the Alemanni tribes) and its variants in many other languages.