Bysenmōtung:Lang-de

German = Germanisc?

Hi! Is there any historical-linguistic reason for calling German Germanisc rather than Þēodsc? Pragmatically speaking, it's rather confusing, as Germanisc is elsewhere used to mean 'Germanic'. Ryba g (mōtung) 08:57, 28 Hāligmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)

As far as I am aware, there is no attested Englisc text naming the German language, nor 'German' in any context. 'Germany' is in several places named Germania.

The word þēodisc does not mean 'German'; it means "of the people" or "gentile" or "a language" in general. This is the same origin as the word deutsch: it was originally used of the language not the nation, as in "Language of the people" in contrast to Latin. A shortened word þēodsc has been used on 'ang:', but that is just a back-formation from deutsch and does not appear in Englisc.

Germanisc does not appear in Englisc but it is based on the authenticated word for Germany. Hogweard

(mōtung) 21:19, 29 Hāligmōnaþ 2015 (UTC)