Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
The Germani were a particular collection of tribes and the word 'Deutsch' is considered to have come from a German word that means 'folk'.
Some Latin languages and Welsh use names for Germany that relate to the Alemmani tribes (Allemagne etc) and some Baltic languages relate to the Saxon tribes (Saksa in Finnish). Eastern European languages use a word for Germany that meant in their respective languages 'non-speaker i.e Niemcy/Německ/Nemecko (Polish, Czech and Slovak respectively).
In what is a large country, its identity is associated either with different tribes or being foreign.