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

> Date:         Sun, 12 May 2002 19:20:18 +1200
> From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>
>
> On Sun, 12 May 2002 05:53, Philip Newton wrote:
> > On 11 May 02, at 12:14, Walter Tsuyoshi Sano wrote:
> > > I wonder why 'Germany' has so many different names:
> > >
> > > de: Deutschland (/dOjtSland/; I know how to pronounce it,
> > >                  just not sure how to represent the diphtong)
> > > jp: Doitsu      (from the german pronunciation)
>
> Derived from teuto- the names of some of the germanic tribes around
> about the times of the Roman Empire.
>
> > > dk: Tyskland (|y| being a high front rounded vowel, like german
> > > |