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German
German (2) "Teuton, member of the Germanic tribes," 1520s (plural Germayns attested from late 14c.), from L. Germanus, first attested in writings of Julius Caesar, who used Germani to designate a group of tribes in northeastern Gaul, origin unknown, probably the name of an individual tribe. It is perhaps of Gaulish (Celtic) origin, perhaps originally meaning "noisy" (Cf. O.Ir. garim "to shout") or "neighbor" (Cf. O.Ir. gair "neighbor"). The earlier English word was Almain (early 14c.) or Dutch.
Þe empere passede from þe Grees to þe Frenschemen and to þe Germans, þat beeþ Almayns. [John of Trevisa, translation of Higdon's Polychronicon, 1387]
Their name for themselves was the root word of modern Ger. Deutsch (see DUTCH (Cf. Dutch)). Roman writers also used Teutoni as a German tribal name, and Latin writers after about 875 commonly refer to the German language as teutonicus. See also ALEMANNI (Cf. Alemanni) and TEUTONIC (Cf. Teutonic). As an adjective, from 1550s. The German shepherd (dog) (1922) translates Ger. deutscher Schäferhund. German Ocean as an old name for the North Sea translates Ptolemy. German measles attested by 1856.

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