Language naming terminology (was Re: Finno-Ugric languages)

Tom Wier wrote:
> (Most of these were also, BTW, Roman calques of what the tribes called
> themselves:  the Teutones were people of one tribe (from PIE *teuta-, "tribe"),
> the Alemanni were a "unified group of men" (cf. ModGer all-, "all", and Mann,
> "man"); as for the Germani, I'm not sure how that name came about, it might
> have been a founding member's name)
I think that Germani comes from the Latin _Germanus_, neighboring (?),
also, thru a slight sound change, the ancestor of Spanish _hermano_

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