Re: Language naming terminology

vardi wrote:
Nemec (nyemets) is the Russki/Russian word for Deutsche/German
person/people.
I've been told that it comes from the Russki word for [nemet' -- to be
dumbfounded, speechless].
But, I think the Russki word for Deutschland/Germany is [Germaniya].
> The Russian for "Germany", if I remember correctly, is "nyemetz" (sorry
> if my transliteration isn't accurate, but it's something close to that =
I
> think).
Yunanistan, Yavan, and Yunan, I was told in my Classic Greek/Ellenike
class comes from the word [Ionic], which is a name for a dialect of the
language.

My T=FCrk=E7e dictionaries say Albania is called [Arnatvutluk]. From the
apparent root word [Arnavud]

> Yunanistan =3D Greece (cf
> Arabic yunan =3D Greece, Hebrew: yavan) and a name for Albania I can't
> recognize or remember).
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