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Re: Codename "de" (was Re: Country names in national languages)

From:Michael Poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Saturday, May 11, 2002, 17:58
Hungarian has a couple of strange names for European countries: 'nemet' for
Germany and 'olasz' for Italy. Can Ferenc tell us where these names come
from? BTW, I think the Russian word for Germany is also something like
'nemet'. Also, does anyone known the Finnish words for Italy and Germany?
Mike
> I wonder why 'Germany' has so many different names:

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