Editing Germany (section)

== Etymology ==
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{{Further|Names of Germany|Germani|Germania}}
The English word ''Germany'' derives from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|Germania}}, which came into use after [[Julius Caesar]] adopted it for the peoples east of the [[Rhine]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/germany00hage/page/4 |title=Germany: A New History |last=Schulze |first=Hagen |publisher=Harvard University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-674-80688-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/germany00hage/page/4 4] |author-link=Hagen Schulze}}</ref> The [[German language|German]] term {{lang|de|Deutschland}}, originally {{lang|gmh|diutisciu land}} ('the German lands'), is derived from {{wikt-lang|de|deutsch}} ([[cf.]] ''[[wikt:Dutch#English|Dutch]]''), which descended from [[Old High German]] {{lang|goh|diutisc}} 'of the people' (from {{lang|goh|diot}} or {{lang|goh|diota}} 'people'), originally used to distinguish the [[Vernacular|language of the common people]] from Latin and [[Romance languages|its Romance descendants]]. This in turn descends from [[Proto-Germanic language|Proto-Germanic]] {{lang|gem-x-proto|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þiudiskaz|þiudiskaz]]}} 'of the people' (see also the Latinised form {{lang|la|[[Theodiscus]]}}), derived from {{lang|gem-x-proto|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þeudō|þeudō]]}}, descended from [[Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European]] *''{{PIE|[[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/tewtéh₂|tewtéh₂-]]}}'' 'people', from which the word ''[[Teutons]]'' also originates.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA523 |title=Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band II |last1=Lloyd |first1=Albert L. |last2=Lühr |first2=Rosemarie |last3=Springer |first3=Otto |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |year=1998 |isbn=978-3-525-20768-0 |pages=699–704 |language=German |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911012455/https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA523 |archivedate=11 September 2015 |url-status=live}} (for {{lang|goh|diutisc}}). {{cite book |last1=Lloyd |first1=Albert L. |title=Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen, Band II |year=1998 |publisher=Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |isbn=978-3-525-20768-0 |pages=685–686|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA516 |last2=Lühr |first2=Rosemarie |last3=Springer |first3=Otto |language=German |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916000730/https://books.google.com/books?id=iKfYGNwwNVIC&pg=PA516 |archivedate=16 September 2015 }} (for {{lang|goh|diot}}).</ref>