Zeitler Web » Germanic http://zeitlerweb.com from 1500s Bavaria Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:05:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Germanic Tribes http://zeitlerweb.com/2007/06/25/germanic-tribes/ http://zeitlerweb.com/2007/06/25/germanic-tribes/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:05:24 +0000 admin http://zeitlerweb.com/2007/06/25/germanic-tribes/ Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Latin 'Germani' was first used by Julius Caesar, and the term could be a loan from the Celtic name for the Germanic tribes. There is also a Latin adjective germanus (from germen, "seed" or "offshoot"), which has the sense of "related" or "kindred" and whence derives Catalan germà, Spanish hermano and Portuguese irmão, "brother". If the proper name Germani derives from this word, it may refer to the Roman experience of the Germanic tribes as allies of the Celts. The name may also derive from one of the principal proto-tribes of Central Europe, the Hermunduri.    Read Full Article  —– see GermanTribes.org

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