Washington County News | 1917-10-18 | Page 7 | Derivation of "Germany."

derivation of germany german and germany come from the latin and germanda Ger manla were the roman names or the germ ins and their country the words are supposed to be from a celtic root which some say meant shouters and others say meant neighbors the germani call themselves deutsch which la from the same root aa dutch and the root meant of the people or belonging to the people and may have been the result of an effort to put into barbarian tongue the greek word meaning the same thing of the people or racial the relation between deutsch and Is more easily seen when we consider that deutsch used to be spelled teutsch